Some candidates have taken the opportunity to abandon the tactics of caution that have prevailed for several years to apply to five or six or more of the most popular and prestigious universities in the country.Peter Lee, admissions officer at Exeter, says: 'Under this new system, we do not know what 'brand loyalty' there is to our institution, or what return we will get on our offers. As yet, however, as Melanie Anclif points out, 'Double Dutch is somewhere between an art form and a sport - the same way that synchronised swimming and trampolining started out.'In order to convince nonbelievers of its true status, Double Dutch has three official sections. The tall batsmen in Test cricket have all had a hard time against the short ball - Graeme Hick, Tom Moody, Trevor Franklin - but Inzamam yesterday suggested that he might be able to weather it.England's captain then out- foxed his Essex team-mate of last season. Indeed, to judge from all the famous faces in the audience, certain parts of London must have been like ghost-towns over the weekend.Downstairs at this culturefest, you can buy a drink and do your back in at the same time by straining over the indoor drystone-walling that, for some reason or other, separates you and the bar. 'In the end, reality was bound to burst through these barriers - and this week Britain resumed control of its own economic destiny.'Lady Thatcher, who took Britain into the ERM two years ago, went on in her speech to offer hollow 'congratulations' to Mr Major and Norman Lamont for 'taking off this economic strait-jacket'. I was never one in the CDP (Committee of Directors of Polytechnics) who aimed to be university-like, with 90 per cent of students on single-subject degrees But I misjudged what was going to happen I underestimated how powerful the word university is. Industry in Germany contributes significantly more to gross domestic product than in the UK - some 39 per cent of the former West Germany's GDP against 30 per cent for Britain - but one can make a good argument that if British industry is slightly too small, Germany's is relatively too big.This is dangerous for two reasons.

Penalties Cooper 2; Conversions Cooper 4, Wilson.SCOTLAND: G Hastings (Wastonians, capt); A Stanger (Hawick), I Jardine (Stirling County), G Shiel (Melrose), S Hastings (Watsonians); C Chalmers (Melrose), A Nicol (Dundee HSFP); A Watt (Glasgow High/Kelvinside), K Milne (Heriot's FP), P Burnell (London Scottish), D Cronin (London Scottish), A Macdonald (Heriot's FP), D McIvor (Edinburgh Academicals), G Weir (Melrose), R Wainwright (Edinburgh Academicals). It is not a case of 'I shop, therefore I am,' but instead, 'I shop because I'm off out tonight in whatever I buy.' In retail heaven on the Tyne, shops shut sharpish. A STUDENT, aged 31, was yesterday remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Dr Elizabeth Howe, a lecturer and author, at York University on Saturday, writes Terry Kirby. PARENTS WILL be misled by the Government's tables of school results because they ignore vocational courses, according to head teachers. I once watched an Arsenal free kick in which the ball hit a Coventry player smack in the face; he went straight down, limbs collapsing, landing in a heap, a really sickening sight, and for a second I thought he's dead, and in the same second I was surrounded by cheering, happy people punching the air yes] He's hurt]It's 1988. Members of his Habir Gedir clan put up makeshift barricades around his home and set old tyres ablaze.They shouted 'Down with America' and waved their fists at foreign troops.

You can keep him up from 1 April to 1 July, give him a summer break and then one race before the Arc.'The Irish Derby, though, is no longer the cakewalk for the Epsom winner it used to be. High interest rates normally help to maintain a strong currency, holding down import prices and hence imported inflation.But the Bundesbank is also faced with one of the worst German recessions since the Second World War. Bernes, recently treated for depression, was described by his lawyer as 'a broken man'; he denies involvement in bribery.. THE HORSES of Siena's Palio race, three of whose number were put to death amid an international outcry after disastrous accidents in July, are savouring a whiff of revenge. If they have been repressed by dictators for 45 years for the sake of Palestine, then with Palestine (or part of it) secure, what further excuse can there be to repress them - unless it is to preserve the personal power of despots? Besides, has not Yasser Arafat - the only man to have embraced President Saddam and shaken hands with Yitzhak Rabin in the space of two years - promised democracy in Palestine itself?If the Arab world is not largely composed of 'tribes with flags' as President Sadat's old amanuensis Tashim Bashir would have us believe, then how will the West react to these calls for domestic freedom? Given our support for human rights, we must surely encourage them. But he ended his career the way he'd begun, with two Oscar nominations in the same year - Taxi Driver and Brian De Palma's Obsession Things came full circle That was neat.

Mr Hata served as Minister of Agriculture in 1985 and again in 1988.Rice is a highly emotional issue in Japan, and has an almost mystical status in the country's cultural self-image. In the middle of the square, Montjoy can glimpse something bright. The men were arrested as they brought ashore nearly pounds 1m worth of cannabis resin at Fowey, Cornwall.. So what's left? For many orthodox Jewish women the next stop would be a trip to the salon to buy a new sheitel - a wig.

Exercise is a natural mechanism by which women can take control,' Professor Bernstein said.In another study her team has looked at menstrual cycle disturbance in college students who jogged two to three hours a week. The South-west, by the way, is second only to the South- east in the number of small businesses based there.Some Lib Dems would see all that as an outrageous betrayal of party principles Perhaps it is. Of course, they also call me Mr Farnworth.Of course.And also, occasionally, Mr Whitworth.But that is not your name.No But they sometimes think it is. 256Fall: 1-8 2-84 3-94 4-96 5-109 6-118 7-124 8-162 9-207.Bowling: Ramanayake 20-4-51-3; Wickremasinghe 18-4-69-2; Hathurusinghe 22-5-66-4; Madurasinghe 10-1-21-0; Gurusinha 2-0-17-0; Anurasiri 12-2-22-1.SRI LANKA - First inningsR S Mahanama not out 6U C Hathurusingha not out .3Extras 0Total. First Edition ONE OF Britain's oldest towns has been identified by archaeologists in Oxfordshire, writes David Keys. To say that Norman Wisdom was educated in the School of Hard Knocks would be an understatement.