Hoffa, with its jaundiced script and a director wedded to his rose-tinted spectacles, is a mess, with only the sterling truculence of Nicholson's performance to mitigate it.(Photograph omitted). The Ministry of Defence, whose internal police are still investigating alleged irregularities, was criticised by the National Audit Office for not ensuring tight financial control over the pounds 269m supply operation. Sir John Bourn, the Comptroller and Auditor General, reported that half of all air freight was routine and should have gone by sea - 17 times cheaper. Nearly five hours of racing over 128 miles took the 96 survivors of the first week from Birmingham. 'I had to dig deep. The City Corporation says that the Home Office fully supports the cordon, which has meant eight checkpoints and the closure of 18 roads. The move is a response to the bombings at Bishopsgate on 24 April and St Mary Axe, a year previously, which caused huge devastation to the financial centre. Poothapally Balakrishna Menon (Swamy Chinmayananda), philosopher, holy man: born Kochi, south India 1916; died San Diego, California 4 August 1993. He is under contract at Oldham until the end of next season. The Warriors have also made an offer to Tea Ropati, the St Helens stand-off..

And when it comes to courting controversy he is no Barry Fry, though he insists he is ambitious.Beating the big-spenders from Molineux would not only raise the Rudge profile. Signatories from the arts include Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Joanna Lumley, Dame Maggie Smith, Sting, Dame Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lord Attenborough, Bryan Ferry, Jane Asher and the writers Margaret Drabble, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Iris Murdoch, Melvyn Bragg and Beryl Bainbridge.Trade unionists include John Monks, Bill Morris, Alan Jinkinson, Tony Dubbins, John Edmonds, Campbell Christie and Roger Lyons. This is a line from a letter written by Erasmus to his friend Beatus in 1518, describing the anguish and misadventure of his Autumn Journey (R3) to Louvain It made Network SouthEast seem like a transport of delight. But similar attempts at repairing margins last year were scuppered by volume- chasing competitors and prices remain 25 per cent lower than at the peak of the market in 1988.Other concerns include the weakness of the German car market, political uncertainty in South Africa, which accounts for a tenth of profits, high-ish gearing and the prospect that the dividend will spend another year in the doldrums. When all the bowlers are fit, the New Zealand attack is adequate. Perhaps the most damaging for Railtrack in the long term is its emerging image as a client state of the Government.

Speaker after speaker in the economy debate appealed for a deep cut in interest rates and opposed any return to the European exchange rate mechanism.Setting the tone, Patricia Morris, an unsuccessful general election candidate, said that it was the first duty of the Government to put British interests first. Chris Butterworth has turned her Greater Manchester home into the base for the dead pet helpline. This is tacky.Labour and the Liberal Democrats can help to make next year a better one by the seriousness and radicalism of the political debate they open up But for now, the real challenge is Mr Major's He survived a year of political turmoil. At 32, Evans is even longer in the tooth but only marginally older than Jeff Probyn, his likely opponent on 6 February, was when he made his England debut five years ago.'That is a mature age for a mature position,' Gareth Jenkins, Evans's club coach and the assistant Wales coach, commented. Tuesday's final performance of a short season at the Tenor Clef in Hoxton owed less to Freud than to Marx.

Scott Lithgow remained under the control of the Lithgow family. Moreover, a 13 per cent drop in the number of criminal hearings in magistrates' courts would in itself save pounds 37m, they said.In response, Lord Mackay told the committee that he could not rely on the package put forward by the Bar Council and Law Society to save more than pounds 8m. All the killings involved groups of white youths. Stephen, 18, and a schoolfriend were attacked by a group of four to six youths as they waited for a bus late at night in Eltham, south-east London. Planning NUS debates? Why not invite some students along? Fighting for equal rights for part-time workers? Issue a few free invitations to less well- off groups.