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Three Chappell brothers played cricket for Australia, Ian, Greg and Trevor. Q. I notice Brighton’s line-up for the opening game at Swansea did not seem to differ too much from the team in their final League game last term at Hereford. Has any team started the League season with the same line-up as the last League match of the previous season?

A In 1923 and 1924, Hibernian reached the Scottish Cup final. The same team played – and lost (to Celtic and Airdrie) – on each occasion. The team (learned at my uncle’s knee) was: Harper; McGinnigle, Dornan; Kerr, Miller, Shaw; Ritchie, Dunn, McColl, Halligan, Walker.
D Hayes, YorkANSWERS PLEASEQ. Their opening floor routine was elegantly choreographed and smoothly accomplished, in particlar the manoeuvre in which Smith (the “base”) slowly settled from a standing into a sitting position while Flores (the “top”) balanced on his head on one hand “That was all right,” Flores said after their routine.

Say what you like about sports acrobatics, it’s tough at the top.. “A good start,” Smith agreed, pointing out that “I’m the one that has to do all the hard work.”There are tougher jobs in sports acrobatics, both of them to be found in the men’s fours. Here most routines are variations on a theme of “How high can you go?” and the tough roles are at the very bottom of a four- man tower and at the very top.For the spectators, this discipline is a matter of suspense: will the little guy make it to the apex of the pile? Will he manage to stay there? And will he, while he is up there, be able to balance on one hand on the head of the man below him? When it works, it is breathtaking; when it doesn’t, it is frightening. Balancing on one hand on the partner’s head was a favourite number, as was a particularly uncomfortable set-up that is probably best described as the splits squared.Britain’s Martyn Smith and Mark Flores were the 1995 world junior all- round champions, and are one of the best bets for home success this weekend.

Here a slim, strong chap of medium height performed a number of graceful balancing manoeuvres on and around a slim, very strong chap of considerable height. The slim, slight and less than average height type would hop up on to this and be catapulted into the air, performing one or two somersaults with or without twists before landing on her compatriots. Repeat with variations.The men’s pairs competition was similar, but different. In a typical routine, the three would do some Pan’s- People-esque stuff to the music for a few moments, before the two slim, strong and average build types linked arms to form a platform. Who is to do what in each group is immediately apparent when the athletes walk gracefully into the arena.In the women’s trios event, for instance, two women of slim, strong build and average height would accompany one of slim, slight build and less than average height. Group sports acrobatics is all about picking people up, throwing them around, and balancing them. Luckily, he has a strong neck, and he was straight back up on his feet, stretching a little gingerly and grinning sheepishly at the judges, who will have knocked off a mark or two for technique but may have added one for chutzpah.Over on the square competition floor, things were less dramatic.

There are two main disciplines in sports acrobatics: tumbling, in which competitors run into a series of somersaults, twisting somersaults and combinations of the two, and balance, tempo and combined exercises, a more graceful, less exciting scenario.There are two ways of describing a sports gymnastics event. Looking on the bright side, it is like gymnastics only without all the equipment that so clutters the place up, and open to people of all sizes, not just pre-pubescent midgets. On the gloomy side, it is like a circus in which all the acts are depressingly similar And there are no clowns.No deliberate clowns, anyway. Rick Schwarz of the United States thundered down the tumbling track, launched into an elegant parabola of twisting somersaults, and landed on his head. But this was Thursday afternoon, early days in an event which did not really pick up speed until the weekend. First of all there was the opening ceremony to be staged, a chance for local dignitaries to say their bit and for officials from the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics to express their dreams, which centre around Olympic recognition for their sport, they hope as soon as 2004.
The usual paraphernalia of opening ceremonies complete, the first competitors marched into the arena. The Master of ceremonies at the World Sports Acrobatics Championships spotted a friendly face in the crowd at the Manchester Velodrome Clutching his lurid yellow microphone, he homed in “Here’s the father of one of the competitors,” he boomed.

MUNDELEIN, IL, Jul 22 (MARKET WIRE) — Medline Industries, Inc., the nation’s largest privately heldmanufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies, announced today thesigning of a five-year national agreement with Premier PurchasingPartners, the group purchasing unit of Premier, Inc., to provide soaps,lotions and waterless hand rinse products to the more than 2,200 U.S.hospitals and 58,000 healthcare sites that are members of the Premierhealthcare alliance. The agreement, which takes effect October 1, 2009,includes key hand hygiene products such as Medline’s Protection Plusantibacterial soaps, foams and lotions as well as the Sterillium(R) brandof hand antisepsis products. “In health care today, every dollar counts.That is why we’re proud to be able to offer high-quality products atcritical savings to Premier members,” said Kurt Krieghbaum, senior vicepresident, National Accounts for Medline. “Our relationship also allowsus to provide hand hygiene products that are recommended by nationalpatient safety groups as an important way to reduce the risks of hospital-acquired infection.”Recent news stories on global health issues such as H1N1 Influenza (swineflu) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), as well asthe cost of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), have brought infectioncontrol into a leading role in health care. HAIs affect at least 2 millionpatients, are estimated to contribute to 88,000 deaths annually in theU.S and account for nearly $5 billion in treatment costs. The Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that one-third of theseinfections can be prevented by implementing better infection controlprograms and that hand hygiene is the most important measure preventingthe spread of infection.Faced with such numbers, hospitals and healthcare facilities are adoptingnew tools, products and techniques that enhance infection-control efforts,such as waterless hand sanitizers that make it easier for physicians andnurses to practice optimum hand hygiene.

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John Prescott pledged to “get Britain moving again” yesterday when he unveiled plans to invest £180bn in roads, rail and trams over the next 10 years. Three years after Labour was elected on a promise to transform public transport, the Deputy Prime Minister announced a cash bonanza aimed at cutting pollution and traffic jams.
To disprove the Government was “anti-car”, Mr Prescott pledged to widen motorways and build 100 bypasses across the country. There will also be more lorry and coach-only motorway lanes and variable speed limits on congested sections. New traffic lights on feeder roads will also “ration access” to motorways.Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, the transport minister, refused to rule out motorway tolls but indicated that they would not be considered seriously until the latter half of the plan. But proposals for “congestion charging” – levies on entering busy areas – were more advanced.

Ministers estimate that such charges would raise £2.7bn during the decade, based on the assumption that the areas that have registered an interest press ahead with the schemes. They are London, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester, Derbyshire, Hampshire and Durham.Some £60bn is to be spent reversing decades of under-investment and making the railway network “bigger, better and safer”.The proposals were attacked by the Tories, who said taxes would have to rise, and by environmentalists, who were scathing about the road-building programme.Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, said his plans for a congestion charge and transport improvements had been scuppered by the Treasury’s decision to delay funding for the capital.Mr Prescott told the Commons that £123bn of public money would be allocated over the next decade, with plans to raise £56bn privately. Some 360 miles of motorway and trunk roads are to be widened. Planning will be speeded up so that road schemes are completed more quickly.There will be 6,000 new railway carriages and an expansion of the network to allow for 50 per cent more passengers.Up to 25 tram networks will be built in towns across the country, doubling the existing number. There will also be more park-and-ride schemes.Mr Prescott said that decades of under-investment and the lack of strategic planning had left Britain with a transport system in crisis but the 10-year plan offered “new ideas, new powers, new resources – a new approach for a new century.

This plan will get Britain moving and give the people of this country a transport system they can rely on,” he said. The country was getting “no frills, no promises of a rosy, traffic-free future, just our best judgements based on detailed analysis of what the new resources will deliver.”The shadow transport minister, Bernard Jenkin, said £423bn would be taken from taxpayers over the 10 years, with extra taxes on the way on people who park at work or drive into town centres.Mr Livingstone welcomed the £3.2bn transport budget for London but attacked a last-minute Treasury move to make him pay £104m for outstanding Jubilee Line bills.The Mayor said such projects as the extension to the East London line, a new Wimbledon-Hackney Tube line, new east Thames river crossings and improvements of transport to Heathrow airport would have to be deferred. “It is tragic to have come so close and then to hear the Treasury have done a great doo-doo on the Mayor’s doorstep,” he said.Motoring groups and rail companies were delighted by the extra investment and the Confederation of British Industry said the plan was “a monumental victory for the business community”.The policy director of the AA, John Dawson, said the targets for reducing congestion were “rightly ambitious”. He said:”It’s the sort of balanced package they’ve been used to in Europe for decades.

The challenge now is to deliver the programme quickly enough for people to notice that the record motoring taxes they pay are finally being used to improve things.”However, the Council for Protection of Rural England and green groups claimed that the new bypasses would put huge pressure on the countryside. The environmental group Transport 2000 spoke of the Government “turning the clock back on roadbuilding to the Dark Ages”.. Ministers have put commercial expedience before an ethical foreign policy, human rights groups said yesterday as the Government published its annual report on the subject. Ministers have put commercial expedience before an ethical foreign policy, human rights groups said yesterday as the Government published its annual report on the subject.
Campaigners, led by Amnesty International, highlighted a series of cases in which Britain had been inconsistent in its application of Labour’s flagship foreign policy.But Robin Cook hit back at them for suggesting the UK should preserve its “purity” by refusing to talk to those who most needed to hear its message. In his introduction to the 174-page report, which detailed Britain’s efforts to promote human rights around the world, the Foreign Secretary said dialogue was often the best way forward.Among the cases raised by human rights groups was that of China, where Amnesty said law enforcement agents had launched the biggest crackdown on peaceful dissent for a decade.

Artistic family friends included Arthur Schnitzler.She studied at Paris X Nanterre University and then trained at Jacques Lecoq’s drama school, going on to act in Moliÿre and contemporary plays, channelling Lecoq’s physical clowning into verbal wit. Her partner is the film director Didier Martigny whose latest film, Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz, she scripted. She is the mother of a 12-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son (born just after her beloved father’s death).But what is the key to her success? Christopher Hampton has described her as “rigorous, robust and quite sticky”. A play such as Art offers something different to various nationalities. In London the writer was startled by the amount of laughter the all-white canvas raised, but she had tapped into a popular distrust of the arty-farty here as well as into a lurking interest in avant-garde art. When I spoke to Warchus about the transfer of his British production to Broadway, he surmised that Reza’s spunky use of language was actually very New York in spirit and – with her characters seeing shrinks and popping pills for stress – that it might even be seen as a “homecoming” for the play.Reza also manages to weave comic archetypes and universal themes into her scripts.

In Life x 3, Mark Rylance’s Henry – on the simplest level – is a farcical, dishevelled and distracted intellectual. In Art, Reza opposes a precious aesthete with a super-irascible bully, each with rigid opinions, while a compulsively wishy-washy middleman takes the flak from both. She clearly learnt from Moliÿre’s popular comedy of humours, although she skilfully overlays caricatures with sharply observed modern satire and some complex psychology.Reza often suggests that a specific relationship might stand for others. In Life x 3, Henry and his wife’s desperate attempts to mollify their tantrum-throwing, preposterously demanding infant can look suspiciously like a flailing world peace summit. In Art, the men’s tiff is laced with almost marital jealousy, the painting beginning to stand between them like an expensive mistress.Reza originally saw the trio in Art as warring facets of herself – a further suggestion that her work transcends sexual differences.Conversations After a Burial brings together sex and death (slightly crudely with a grave-top bout of passion).

The Unexpected Man holds loneliness and attraction in tension; and the astrophysicists and their wives in Life x 3 ruminate on man’s place in the universe.Reza’s concepts are never very difficult. Her skill is to offer “big ideas lite”, keeping a broad audience happy. Her amalgamation of laughs with smart arguments and flashes of raw emotion is a crowd-pulling recipe. The playwright also understands – from the inside – how to pen parts that actors will queue up for, with virtuoso monologues and sharp switches of mood.However, one can’t help wondering if Life x 3 – with its amusingly awkward silences over pre-prandial snacks and its shift from jokes to viciously frank skirmishes – isn’t rejigging formats used in Art. Some will, surely, hunger for more meaty intellectual content Yasmina Reza may be spreading herself just too thin.. I’d like to see Jeffrey Archer in detention. Naturally, I am not referring to the former MP and persistent author’s real-life situation wherein he faces charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice.

I think he can give as good as he gets but isn’t necessarily a bully. He may be an essentially good man sitting atop some dark and occasionally explosive forces. Tim, do you ever fear breaking down yourself? “Of course, one fears it round every corner.” I think he may be more complicated than Richard Branson or Terence Conran, actually. Certainly, he is much more open.He was born and brought up in Crowborough, Sussex. His father, Malcolm, was a Second World War drummer who became a tea-broker. He loved his father “hugely”, he says, then adds “although I never had a good relationship with him” Why not? He isn’t sure They just never hit it off.

Could you change it? I’ll pay for the cappuccino, of course.” I tell Tim to buck up You own the place, man Fire the boy Tim cringes and says he couldn’t. The place is jam-packed with the sorts of families who dress their little girls in top-quality tartan skirts and make their boys wear sailor suits to weddings It is very Chelsea. Yes, there’s Barbie and Action Man but there’s also a pounds 2,600 play cottage with a real thatched roof Crikey, I say, you could buy a house in Manchester for that True, says Tim, “but we’ve just sold two” He is not into money per se himself, he says. “Look at my cuffs,” he cries.We go to the soda fountain, where Tim orders tea but is given a cappuccino “Awfully sorry,” he says to the waiter, “but I ordered tea. But other men aren’t entrepreneurial visionaries like Tim.Anyway, I meet Tim at Daisy & Tom on a Saturday afternoon, when business is brisk, to say the least.

He got the idea for Daisy & Tom from noting how his third wife, Rosie, seemed to spend most weekends schlepping their two young daughters, Daisy and Lucy, from shoe shop to clothes shop to toy shop. So, he thought, why not one shop that sells clothes and shoes and toys? Yes, other men might have just given Rosie a hand. He took bookselling from something people used to do as a favour or a hobby and turned it into something much sexier, and much more rock ‘n’ roll.After selling Waterstone’s, Tim remained as a consultant for five years, then moved away to write three novels and open Daisy & Tom, a sort of children’s department store on the King’s Road in London which will soon, he says, be established nationwide. If you were very brave, you could venture into London, to Foyles, but with its chits, confused staff and layout it had all the appeal of a sub-post-office in Karachi.What Tim did was create big shops you could walk around, that had good layouts, more than 50,000 titles always in stock, excellent specialist sections, long opening hours and staff who were graduates who may have read a book or two. He may, even, have done more than anyone to transform literary Britain than anyone else.

Rims and bling? They’re “super-played out,” Common said, explaining that hip-hop is finding another direction and President Obama is helping point the way.

Lesson one: this is called a bat.In the next week or so, the chief executive of the Test and County Cricket Board, Alan Smith, will be arriving in Australia. Despite giving Test matches a 95-year start, theone-day international total is now up to 955.The reason that it is not 956, nor, after today’s game, 957, is that the International Cricket Council has declined to recognise Australia A as a legitimate international team. Cynics might point out that this criterion can now be applied to England, andthat the remainder of this winter’s Test series should be recorded under the heading of exhibition games involving a side not recognised as first-class.The two weekend defeats by the Australian Cricket Academy, and, more particularly, the wretched manner of them, suggests that England would be better employed for the rest of this tour hiring a classroom on the Academy campus, and attending a series of lectures for beginners We can start with a slide show. “Knowing Vicente and Diane as I do, I should imagine they will want to clear their name whatever it takes.”But whatever happens, at the end of the day she’s still going to be my friend Nothing is going to alter that.”. It is only eight years since an England cricket team came to Australia and won all three competitions placed in front of them, but people are now beginning to wonder whether it was all an elaborate hoax. Could it be (as has been claimed about the American moon landing) that the 1986-87 tour was actually played out by actors on a studio set at Pinewood or Elstree, and released as a propaganda exercise to maintain government popularity and the nation’s morale?

England yesterday flew to Melbourne, manfully resisting the urge to transfer to the international terminal for a connecting flight to Heathrow, and were today attempting to restore some self-esteem in a World Series Cup qualifier against Australia’s A side under the MCG floodlights.
On Sunday, Australia A were narrowly beaten by their seniors in Adelaide, in a match that failed to narrow the ever-closing gap between the number of Test matches played (1,282) and one-day internationals. An ab sence in the findings of metabolites – processed testosterone which normally complements abnormal findings of unprocessed testosterone – will also be raised.But the IAAF has indicated that any querying of the testing procedure will have to be considered by an arbitration panel next year.

Modahl’s return from limbo looks like being a fleeting one, whatever the verdict.”Diane has gone through such a lot of mental strain that she is thinking very short term at the moment,” Thomas said. Even though Modahl is not seriously ill, there are strong suggestions that she has some medical condition which has led to hormonal imbalance in the past.There is, too, a welter of evidence that Modahl’s testing was not conducted effectively – most notably that her sample was kept unrefrigerated for two days by the Portuguese testing laboratory and hence may have been crucially modified by bacteria. But Diane is a bit too close to be a help.”Even if the BAF panel finds in her favour, Modahl will not be cleared to run by the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which has effectively decided that she needs to give a clear medical reason for her test finding if she is to avoid a four-yearban.Such an explanation may well be forthcoming. Going to college is something that helps her get away from things for a while.”She’s had a lot of letters of support from the general public and from other athletes, saying that they are thinking about her. But it is really difficult for everyone that is close to her trying to keep her spirits up.”She is ticking over in training – just going through the motions She says it is very difficult for her at the moment Vicente has been working really intensively on her case He has been absolutely superb You couldn’t hope for a better manager or husband. To come back will be a very hard step for her to take.”The British sprinter Paula Thomas has spoken frequently in the last three months to Modahl, who is godmother to her son.”If you ask me whether she’s coping, the answer is, no she’s not But she is trying to get on with her life. It took considerable effort on behalf of close friends to calm her fears.

Her refuge has been her home in Sale, with her husband and two cats.”The whole thing has had a profound effect on her,” said Malcolm Brown, the British team doctor who has been advising the Modahls on their case. “Some of the time she has been in a dreadful state.”What has been particularly sickening for her is the fact that athletics has been her life, and now it is athletics that has turned round and slapped her in the face in a very vicious way. She was frequently on the verge of tears and once had to be persuaded to go back into the room.Stories speculating that the huge levels of testosterone recorded in her sample – four times that which saw Ben Johnson banned for life – were caused by serious illness put her into a panic. She has continued to train in a desultory fashion, but the lack of a clear future in the sport has rendered it little more than therapeutic exercise.
She has persisted with a BA course at Manchester University in – ironically – media studies, but the allegations made by Liz McColgan in October that a large number of British athletes were taking drugs – allegations the former world 10,000 metres champion subsequently toned down – were said to have upset her so much that she took an unplanned break from her studies.She has attended two award ceremonies at her club, Sale Harriers, the second of which, according to the club’s team manager, Eric Hughes, was “to show that we still believed in her”.

In round one it faced powerhouses AC Milan and Barcelona and started with a 4-0 loss to the Spanish club. But Barcelona faded after that and wound up eliminated as Leeds went through as runner up to Milan.The draw also kept Galatasaray from the three English teams. When Leeds went to Istanbul in last season’s UEFA Cup semifinal two of its fans were stabbed to death and several Turks face trial in connection with their deaths.Group A Valencia Sturm Graz Man Utd PanathinaikosGroup B AC Milan Deportivo la Coruna Paris Saint Germain GalatasaryGroup C Bayern Munich Arsenal Spartak Moscow LyonGroup D Real Madrid Anderlecht Lazio Leeds Utd. Not so much three lions on the shirt as three lion cubs on the nappy. That appears to be the motif of Peter Taylor’s regency, after England’s caretaker coach revealed his first senior squad yesterday. Not so much three lions on the shirt as three lion cubs on the nappy. That appears to be the motif of Peter Taylor’s regency, after England’s caretaker coach revealed his first senior squad yesterday.
In a bold selection for next Wednesday’s friendly against Italy in Turin any player born prior to 1970 has been omitted.

The party which will leave Luton Airport on Monday afternoon will thus be indistinguishable from a charter flight for Club 18-30 – except, presumably, for the lager and ladies.Those players culled by their birth date include four past and present captains: Tony Adams, Martin Keown, Paul Ince and David Seaman. Were he still available Alan Shearer would have qualified, but, in his and their absence, David Beckham leads the team for the first time.Also purged are Teddy Sheringham, the season’s most in-form striker, and Graeme Le Saux, England’s best left-sided defender. Replacing the 30-somethings are young players of very limited experience, some of whom are not even playing regularly, or well, at club level.Taylor, however, knows and trusts the likes of Michael Ball, Nicky Butt, Seth Johnson and Frank Lampard from his days as coach to the Under-21s. In all, 12 of his former charges figure in this 26-man squad, plus players such as the Leeds pair of Alan Smith and Paul Robinson, who came through after he had been forced to relinquish the post. Surprisingly, Joe Cole would not have been picked if fit: Taylor said he would not have started and would thus have benefited more from 90 minutes with the Under-21s.Andy Cole and Steve McManaman have also been left out. Cole is understood to have been carrying an injury which, in the gap between Champions’ League stages, Manchester United are taking the opportunity to treat. McManaman appears to be a victim of Taylor’s heavy commitments.

The Leicester City manager admitted that he did not realise the 28-year-old had forced his way back into the Real Madrid side. He only found out when he rang McManaman to tell him he was being omitted because he was not playing regularly. Other players, he said, had been chosen partly on memory, or for good performances against Leicester.This is one of the drawbacks of Taylor’s dual role. One of the positives is that, as he said, a permanent coach could not have risked picking such anadventurous squad.Taylor can experiment as he regards this match as a “one-off” as well as a friendly. Though he “would be happy” to continue being caretaker “if Leicester City are happy” he has not yet discussed the prospect with the Football Association.He added: “Italy are a very hard opponent, but I still thought this was the way to go I know a lot of these players. Everybody speaks about their potential – this is the way to test it.”There is logic in this, though few would consider an away match against the European Championship finalists the best occasion to experiment.

Only seven players have even reached double figures in international starts – normally regarded as the stage when a player starts feeling comfortable – and eight still qualify for the Under-21s. Taylor said he would thus be leaning heavily on the senior players, especially Beckham – David that is, Brooklyn was considered just too young.”David has very good experience,” said Taylor “I have been impressed with him since the World Cup. Then he took a lot of stick incredibly well and has played really well He’s delighted I hope he enjoys himself. He deserves it.”Beckham is one of six Manchester United players in the squad, compared to one from Arsenal, which will hardly have had Sir Alex Ferguson complimenting his and Taylor’s assistant, Steve McClaren, yesterday.Taylor has not yet spoken to their forthcoming boss at England level, Sven Goran Eriksson, but intends to do so before the match. Taylor admitted some of the older hands may be upset at missing out on a chance to impress Eriksson, but said: “He would know more about them than the ones on this list and if they miss a game it will notaffect their experience.”Whether the young ones are elevated or traumatised by the challenge remains to be seen. If Taylor follows his philosophy through to the final XI it will be a very young side which could well be exposed by the likes of Francesco Totti, Stefano Fiore and Alessandro Del Piero.Card-playing, incidentally, will be allowed within the squad, though not for the high stakes which were reported to be changing hands under Kevin Keegan.

Warren Beatty’s attorney questions claims in a new book — such as the statistic that the actor slept with more than 12,000 women.

Gareth R Thomas, asking a question about the range of ticket prices in London, asked the minister to comment on the possibility of “yet another Tory party performance of Julius Caesar” in the event of Michael Portillo winning the Kensington by-election. Eric Forth, champing at the bit on the Tory benches, couldn’t restrain his disgust at this fumbled opportunity; “Oh,” he whinnied, “absolutely sickening!”There was worse to come. But no, he wanted to say something pious about Kettering mini-rugby club. He might have asked the minister what hobbies Lord Archer could take up to while away the lonely hours of leisure he now finds at his disposal. “If Express Newspapers can show that Mr Francis and Lord Archer conspired to ‘injure’ the newspaper then they can be made to pay back the pounds 500,000, plus interest After 12 years that is a hell of a lot of money.”. Who would be the first to make a joke about the disgraced Conservative candidate for London mayor and exactly how long would it take them to get to the line?

Not a lot of money was resting on a quick race. The going was soft – questions on Culture, Media and Sport – and the punter’s favourite, Dennis Skinner, had been withdrawn due to illness.

Some of the more promising horses were not in the running either, since, however tempted they might be, Tories were unlikely to join the race.
Early furlongs were not promising. Phil Sawford was the first Labour runner out of the gates and looked to have the perfect opportunity to finish things before they really began. Surely his tabled question, about the role of arts and sport in tackling social exclusion, gave him an unassailable lead?It would have been child’s play to give the supplementary an Archeresque twist. Mr Hill added that he believed that some form of legal action against Lord Archer was inevitable.”When you go to court you expect that all the evidence will be heard and you expect the truth will be told. But in fact, all the evidence was not heard, because if the jury had known that Jeffrey Archer had persuaded his friend to lie for him, they wouldn’t have been prepared to believe the rest of the things that he said.”The paper, which is owned by Express Newspapers, would be pursuing the issue, he insisted. Legal experts said that while criminal charges were unlikely, a civil case could probably be brought.Mark Stephens, of the London media law firm Stephens Innocent, thought that while the police would investigate the matter thoroughly, a case of attempting to pervert the course of justice would not even get into court.”I suspect that at the end of the day the Crown Prosecution Service will say that there is a less than a 50 per cent chance of a successful prosecution – these cases are notoriously difficult to make stick – and in those circumstances we will not see Jeffrey Archer in jail,” said Mr Stephens.But he added that the Daily Star’s owners could launch a “conspiracy to injure” suit, even though the lies were never heard in court. Officers from the Organised Crime Group, responsible for conducting a similar investigation into lies told by Jonathan Aitken, are understood to have met yesterday to discuss the allegations.But Mr Hill also demanded in a front-page leader column in yesterday’s paper that Lord Archer pay pounds 3m in recompense.

Peter Hill, the newspaper’s editor, said that this could result in charges of conspiracy to commit perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice. The Daily Star, which Lord Archer successfully sued for pounds 500,000 plus costs in 1987, has lodged an official complaint with police over his admission that he asked a friend, Ted Francis, to lie on his behalf.
Last night the newspaper announced that it was to appeal against the 1987 libel trial verdict. AS SENIOR officers at Scotland Yard met yesterday to discuss their next move in the case, speculation grew that even if Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare is not prosecuted on criminal charges, he could still face millions of pounds in damages from a civil action. He will retain his job as president of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.Most likely option is that he will throw himself into writing his novels, which rescued him from his first, catastrophic downfall in 1974 when he was declared bankrupt.. He raised a “fortune” for Oxfam in its early days and substantial funds for Kurdish refugees after the Gulf War.He could now use his skills to help a range of charities, although it is doubtful any high-profile organisation would take him on in an official capacity.As a former sprinter for Oxford University and Great Britain, he has always retained an interest in sport and would have the administrative background to run a major sporting body. “There is never an end for Jeffrey, just another chapter.”Now that the politics appears finally over, Lord Archer may simply throw himself into some of his other pet projects.

William Hague in effect read the last rites over his political career last night by withdrawing the whip from him in the House of Lords and instigating an inquiry into allegations against him.
Yet, like Bill Clinton and Peter Mandelson, the millionaire novelist is a Comeback Kid par excellence and his friends were declaring that he was not quite finished yet.”He has creativity and vision and energy and he is going to be coming back and using that because that’s the whole point of his life,” said Stephan Shakespeare, his press spokesman. He clearly did wrong but I think the newspapers that originally entrapped him were badly in the wrong as well I think that was utterly disgraceful. I am still his friend and I have nothing to add.”Ivan Massow, head of the Tory Mayoral policy committee, added: “Jeffrey’s a remarkable person When you meet him, he is larger than life. He wins you over and he promised he was clean.”Tory party chairman Michael Ancram said: “I talked to Jeffrey Archer about the ethics and integrity committee and he assured me there was nothing for the committee to address. We can all be wise with the benefit of hindsight.” Sir Timothy Kitson, a senior Tory MP, had tried to warn Mr Ancram, but had been rebuffed. “I felt I was knocking my head against a brick wall.”Many will say Mr Ancram and his senior colleagues, instead of talking about hindsight, should have shown was a greater degree of foresight..

HAVING SPENT every waking hour of the past two years, plus up to pounds 1m on his campaign to become elected mayor of London, the immediate future looks bleak for Jeffrey Archer. Gyles Brandreth, broadcaster and Tory MP said: “Jeffrey has made fools of those of us who have defended him all down the years, but we’ll get over it.” A few, such as Lord Lamont, gave equivocal support, saying: “I am very sorry for Jeffrey. John Humphrys is sometimes present, although this had not stopped him from giving Lord Archer a torrid time BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.But the politicians are under the spotlight for falling for the Archer line Most are saying nothing A few who did, talked of being let down. know what I mean Harry.” Other showbusiness invitees to Lord Archer’s parties include Terry Wogan, Sir Donald Sinden, Jim Davidson, Selina Scott, Nigel Havers, Clive James, Anne Diamond, Jane Asher and her cartoonist husband Gerald Scarfe.Influential voices in the media are also represented including David Frost, Andrew Neil, Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore, The Guardian’s political editor Michael White and the BBC’s political editor Robin Oakley.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has subpoenaed medical records from 20 doctors in its investigation into actor Corey Haim’s death, a coroner investigator said.

About 30 people were arrested.Thousands of people took part in at last half a dozen others protests in Katmandu, and protests in the cities of Pokhara and Bharatpur attracted about 10,000 people each, officials and Nepali media reported.Police also arrested about 20 journalists who were protesting to demand press freedom and the release of about a dozen journalists detained in similar demonstration the day before.. The demonstrators responded with an obscene gesture and kept throwing rocks.The opposition said 13 people were wounded by rubber bullets and that dozens of others were injured by baton-wielding police. The protesters then charged the officers, who responded with a volley of tear gas and rubber bullets that sent most of the people fleeing.But a hardcore group, largely students, retreated onto the hills overlooking the road, hurling stones and shouting obscenities at police in a skirmish that stretched across terraced rice patties and lasted into the night.”I’ll find you and kill you in seven generations,” one officer shouted after firing rubber bullets at a protesters about 20 meters away. Another, in the Balkhu neighborhood, degenerated into a running battle between protesters and police.About 10,000 people had been marching along the ring road that skirts Katmandu for hours when riot police massed to stop them. Tourism, Nepal’s second largest foreign exchange earner, has dropped from an estimated 500,000 visitors in 1999 to 275,000 in 2005.Four people were arrested at the protest, which attracted dozens of curious backpackers, many of whom snapped photographs.Later Sunday, traders around medieval Darbar Square, in central Katmandu, burned tires and in the city’s heart, a neighborhood of Hindu temples and palaces.But the day’s biggest rallies took place in two neighborhoods on the outskirts of Katmandu One attracted 15,000 people and was peaceful. The US$1.2 billion (¤1 billion) in remittances have in large part kept the economy afloat.In Thamel – the city’s ordinarily throbbing tourist hub – dozens of shop owners, hotel workers and trekking guides burned tires and taunted police along streets lined with shuttered stores that sell trinkets, traditional fabrics and pirated DVDs.”The king is killing our work, we have not enough customers,” said C.V Shresthra, a 36-year-old trekking guide. The rebels are backing the opposition campaign.The protests are the worst since Gyanendra’s power grab, and the opposition sought to up the pressure Sunday, appealing to Nepalis to stop paying taxes, custom duties, interest on loans from state banks and even for electricity, phone service and water from state-run utilities.They also urged the estimated 1.6 million Nepalese working abroad to stop sending money home.

Also scarce was water buffalo meat, popular with Hindu Nepalis who don’t eat cows, which they consider sacred.Gyanendra seized power in February 2005, saying he needed control to restore political order and end a communist insurgency that has killed nearly 13,000 people in the past decade. Whatever we are selling was what we had in stock, or grown locally in Katmandu,” said Raj Maharjan, a vegetable vendor at the city’s Baneswor market.Like most vendors, he had no green vegetables and was running low on potatoes and onions. Customers were only being sold 300 rupees (US$4) worth of gasoline, enough for a few liters (gallons).At most stations, signs read: “No petrol, no diesel.”The prices for what few vegetables could be found have risen fivefold since the start of the strike on April 6, and the prices of chicken and mutton have doubled.”We have not had a single truck come in the past 11 days. I have no choice but to wait for hours to get petrol,” said Sundar Thapa as lined up at one of the few open gas stations.

Everest.Following Sunday’s protests, his government extended the ban on demonstrations to the outskirts of Katmandu and the suburb of Lalitpur, where many rallies have been held.In Katmandu, many of the capital’s 1.5 million residents struggled to find everything from fresh vegetables to gasoline.”I pushed my motorcycle all the way here. Yesterday’s pro-democracy rallies attracted some 50,000 people across the Himalayan kingdom and were the biggest since opponents of King Gyanendra’s royal dictatorship began their campaign of protests and a nationwide strike that has cut off Nepal’s cities for 11 days.
Among the demonstrations were small protests in the capital’s tourist hub and its commercial heart – the first in the center of Katmandu, where rallies are banned.Even with the opposition flexing it muscles, Gyanendra appeared unready to relinquish power over this mountain kingdom that has long attracted Western hippies in search of Eastern spirituality and mountain climbers looking to scale peaks like Mt. With fuel being rationed and fresh food running low in Katmandu, clashes between police and protesters flared anew in Nepal as tens of thousands of angry Nepalis took to the streets and the opposition urged people to stop paying taxes. Today, the Japanese eat 40 times more beef-burger than whale, says Greenpeace; only 1 per cent of Japanese eat whale meat regularly.. Most would no more go out of their way to eat whale than a Londoner would to eat jellied eel.

Consumption was falling even before the 1986 moratorium on commercial hunting. Ask a Japanese person under 40 how much whale they consume and you’re likely to get a blank look. Fatah spokesmen blamed Hamas for destroying the Palestinian economy and urged the Islamic movement to endorse previous agreements with Israel.. But President Mahmoud Abbas’s party, which declined to attend an emergency meeting in Gaza, is in no hurry to agree.Speaking in a mosque on Friday, Mr Haniyeh accused the President of forging “an unholy alliance” with the international community, which is boycotting Hamas officials, to bring down his government. The way it looks now, it is doubtful that the United Nations and the international efforts will succeed in stopping Iran.”* With infighting between the old and new regimes tearing Palestinian politics apart, Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas Prime Minister, has appealed to rival parties to join a national unity coalition “The door is open to Fatah,” a spokesman said.


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