'I am glad though that there is only one day remaining, but I am feeling confident that I can keep the jersey with the help of my team.'It only takes a slip, though, particularly on such a greasy circuit as that at Coventry.'Van der Poel is the Italian's biggest threat especially with today's leg from Nottingham taking in the Snake Pass and Holme Moss climbs before finishing in Leeds city centre.Yates will be on hand to champion Sciandri's cause with his remorseless front-riding style that has earned him the nickname of 'The Beast'.Yates was among yesterday's fallers and escaped undamaged, but Harald Maier, the Austrian champion, finished the day with a cut eye that would have stopped most boxing bouts.Ireland's Martin Earley and Dave Mann, of Britain, crashed on Wednesday but yesterday they counter-punched themselves into second and third places at Coventry.'I knew the circuit would be dangerous in the rain,' Earley said. Campaigning for the preservation of Carlton House Terrace in 1933 he is vigorous, lucid and completely in command of his arguments. Not that old, then - as islands go, a Milton Keynes rather than a Babylon Maybe we should, at last, try looking forward.. Here, every autumn in the 1830s, Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford, went to ground in an encampment of wooden huts with stone foundations and turf roofs. But I don't think there was ever a possibility that it might. Fertilisation would take place in the laboratory, creating 'test tube' leopards which would be frozen, with details of the parentage of each kept on an international database.

LIONEL SHRIVER was born in North Carolina and grew up in New York City, but she has lived in Belfast since 1987. Maybe the lower classes as classes still had worse health, but the numbers suffering from that worse health fell. The aim is to evaluate the scale of the corruption in the 30,000-member New York force and to recommend safeguards against abuses.'Did you beat people up who you arrested?' Cawley was asked 'No,' he replied 'We just beat people up in general If they're on the street, hanging around drug locations It was. ENERGIS, the telecommunications subsidiary of the National Grid Company, will announce this week that it is doubling its rate of investment to pounds 200m over the next year, in a drive to become the third telecoms force in the UK behind British Telecommunications and Mercury, writes Mary Fagan. Conflicting interpretations emerged after Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Social Security, yesterday published a report on projected spending on social security to the end of the century, to 'stimulate and inform public debate'. The figures estimated that spending would rise by between pounds 10bn and pounds 19bn a year above the pounds 74bn this year, depending on whether unemployment fell by half or stayed at 3 million.Labour accused the Government of misusing the estimates to justify cuts in benefits to the disabled, single parents, pensioners and other vulnerable groups. In November this year, Mr Smith, an undischarged bankrupt who had served three prison sentences for deception, pleaded guilty to seven charges of forging and using references and curriculum vitae.While working for the WDA, he paid a model agency pounds 3,330 for promotional work. But the 'so far' is important because it is essential not to be complacent.

As the ear accustoms itself, Hank Williams emerges: this really is him. But it makes a serviceable bowl of stewed fruit or a pie; gives acidity and bulk to bland jams and chutneys; and makes lovely cerise wine, pretty jellies, and tasty sorbets.It is a strange phenomenon, is it not, a plant stem that is a fruit? But everything about rhubarb is strange, not least its rebarbative and repellent name, assigned it by the Romans who first imported this strange, barbarian root (it gets its name from the Latin barbarium). One print is an overhead view of a young 'pioneer' with out-of-focus cropped hair, taken around 1930- 31, est pounds 3,000- pounds 5,000. They are outside the system, without access to its currency support facilities, but all the same tied to it. Somehow they manage to get to the ring and walk in looking like the Queen of Sheba.David Hibling is ringmaster of Billy Smart's at Richmond Old Deer Park til 7 Nov (081-332 2323)(Photograph omitted). Elton,who without his glasses looksbleary and anxious, plays CD with the bleary, anxious look of aman who has mislaid his glasses.This is not acting, it is fear.Elton told Radio Times: 'As an actor, I'm all right.