Dealers said the cut in the German ‘repo’ interest rate – which closely influences market rates – from 8

Dealers said the cut in the German ‘repo’ interest rate – which closely influences market rates – from 8.49 to 8.25 per cent made it easier for Britain to consider a base rate cut.But the Treasury and Bank of England have hinted strongly in recent days that they do not intend to use a German rates cut to justify a reduction in British base rate to accompany the Budget on 16 March.German rate cut, page 17Mark weakens, page 17. CNS already supplies racing and football results in the same way.So that this can happen the county scorer is being asked to record the action via a CNS lap-top. Guinness’s rescue was defensive, protecting distribution of Harp lager in South Wales.The buyout team, headed by Mike Salter, managing director, is believed to have paid about pounds 6m for Crown, also owner of a packaging business and 80 pubs. First, however, White has to kill off the knight and capture or immobilise the d-pawn.
White must start with a bishop move and 1 Bf3 is the obvious candidate. The Hong Kong Police will have complete responsibility for internal security by 1995. If you want a driving permit or a bank loan, a telephone line repaired or a politician’s ear, you start shelling out rupees. One part of this, known as Sphinx, is a 1,000-megabyte CD-ROM library containing 10,000 pictures and drawings of specific items on every Dell computer ever made.Callers can then be ‘talked through’ detailed instructions while both parties refer to exactly the same image.With home computer sales booming, and a Mori survey showing that one in three British families plans to have some sort of computer-related present under the Christmas tree this year, Christmas Day at Bray looks likely to be just another working day.(Photograph omitted).

However, flights were disrupted and Terminal One was closed as bomb disposal experts searched for the three remaining devices – all of which failed to explode. Mr Barber said the cost cuts had saved pounds 5m in 1993 and would be worth pounds 8m in a full year. Rechem still has no idea what line European environment ministers will take on importing and exporting hazardous waste, and so whether or not its incinerators have a market to service. Plus, both Henley and I had developed drug habits, which didn’t help matters.

Andrew Collins QC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said sequestration of the company’s assets might be the only way to persuade it to obey a court order brought under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.Channel 4 and Box Productions, a small television production company, are facing the prospect of sequestration or unlimited fines over the refusal to divulge the sources for ‘The Committee’, a programme screened in the Dispatches series last October.The case – which has also brought allegations of threats, unexplained break-ins and attempts by Irish loyalists to recruit a ‘mercenary’ on the British mainland – is being seen as an important test of journalists’ right not to disclose sources. The shares, which initially dipped on the results, recovered to close 1p better at 373p.Shares in McCarthy & Stone, the retirement homes company, could catch the eye today following a late announcement yesterday of the departure of two executive directors. The conversation is led by, and normally ended by, Mr Rowland.More often than not, the subject of the Fayeds and what he sees as their betrayal (he sold them his House of Fraser shares, they promptly turned round and bought the company) is raised.Mainly, though, the talk is of faraway lands and presidents and potentates. The future of one of Britain’s biggest gypsy horse fairs is threatened by a legal battle which the event’s organisers say they are prepared to take to the European Court of Human Rights. She also supplies them with endless tapes of their own and others’ performances.Most importantly, she proselytises on their behalf.

They look increasingly comfortable with their millions and their vastly priced players are beginning to like each other’s company more and more, which is often the case with the super rich.They were not only richer but younger, wiser and better than Aston Villa yesterday and they would certainly be fitting replacements as runners-up to Manchester United. His early clients, mostly Quakers, approved of his ascetic convictions and his desire to order their domestic lives by designing everything for them, from wallpaper to cutlery. He simply could not see what more could be done to make his Labour Party electable without destroying its very soul. INDUSTRIAL BANK of Japan yesterday confirmed it was subscribing to a vital pounds 700m loan to Eurotunnel amid reports from Tokyo that several other Japanese banks were also ready to join. ‘I believe in playing more directly and England could be more penetrative,’ he said. He is something of an expert, having twice walked the length of the canal, cycled it, and covered it by boat and helicopter. Bill Jordan, president of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, said: ‘It takes a strong, courageous and confident man to put the good of the party first.’Nick Brown, a former member of Mr Brown’s shadow Treasury team, said it was ‘an extremely big decision made by a very big and generous man’.Leading article, page 17.

‘I went on safari last year, I’m climbing Kilimanjaro in September. In desperation you track down the nearest hypermarche and, bombarded with sensory overload, you click on to automatic and come out with exactly the same sort of thing you buy in Britain.What follows, is the Independent’s holiday guide to food shopping in France. Paul Jarvis was again hostile but unlucky, while Peter Hartley took three wickets for five runs in 16 balls.The innings was rescued from 34 for 4 by a stand of 103 in 29 overs between Graeme Archer, 22, a Cumbrian playing his first Championship match, and Chris Cairns.The New Zealander used his eye and massive swing powerfully, hitting three sixes, one off Phil Carrick sailing out of the ground. Even so the shares fell 4p to 79.5p.The oil group Pittencrieff made further headway, up 12p to 215p. When my nanny left, I remember I wouldn’t talk to the unfortunate French girl who replaced her I would say to my brother, ‘Tell that woman that I want. 2
SOUTHAMPTON’S first away win of the year secured their position in the middle of the table at the expense of their fellow strugglers Wimbledon.