It was – Andrew is the son of Willie Purves Hongkong’s chairman and now Sir Willie in the New Year Honours

It was – Andrew is the son of Willie Purves, Hongkong’s chairman and now Sir Willie in the New Year Honours The boy got his loan.. Margaret Busby, editor of the new anthology of women’s writing Daughters of Africa (see review opposite) remembers her student days: ‘I was studying English at London University, and there wasn’t a single black or African writer on the course.I had to find them myself, and the African Writers series was the only thing around – I bought them all.’ Hilary Laurie, now editorial director of Everyman Classics, recalls arriving in Nairobi in the 1970s, when ‘the series was the only route into a culture which was strange to me. BELGRADE (Reuter, AP) – Allies of the Serbian President, Slobodan Milosevic, tabled a parliamentary vote of no confidence in the Yugoslav Prime Minister, Milan Panic, yesterday after the two men clashed politically. His remark to People, quoted above, made his belief in God sound like a thermal blanket, in which he had sat huddled against the cold, scandalous wind of the New Hampshire primary.Usually he settles for a sort of genteel churchiness, which can come across as merely unctuous.On Larry King Live, seated in the chair left warm by Ross Perot, Clinton spoke about how he was unable to get to sleep at night, thinking about the ‘hurt’ suffered by the American people under the Bush administration. The convoy returned to the UN-controlled Sarajevo airport late on Sunday night.’This has been a mini-masterpiece of tact and tension,’ said the UN logistics expert Larry Hollingworth, who directed the successful convoy.

The great and the good at play in the Old Vicarage, Grantchester, chatting under the summer sun and the splendid white marquees, would not have disappointed Dr Johnson. But in later Studies, two other concerns have become increasingly prominent. ‘The kind of computer models we are developing can, I think, be pushed in the future to provide that kind of information,’ he said.The instructions to aircraft pilots may be to fly a little higher or a little lower, or take a slightly different route to the north or south, he said.A U-2 spy aircraft converted for scientific research has already taken part in a flight from New Zealand to Antarctica to test whether the NERC’s computer predictions of atmospheric chemistry are accurate. Borrowers will get a flat pounds 500 regardless of the size of their mortgage – a great ‘cash-back’ offer that gives the society a real edge in the mortgage stakes over the coming year.
Andrew Longhurst, chief executive of C&G, said savers were subject to stringent rules from the law governing building societies. THE businessman’s favourite perk, the company car, is booming again, despite tax changes which have made it less attractive, writes Christian Wolmar. People in boots, carrying backpacks and guidebooks, struggle up from the south through all sorts of terrain and weather, and stumble into the bar of the Blue Bell Inn, Alston’s walkers’ boozer, there to swap stories of rolling fog and sudden, unseasonal hailstorms. How can hotels justify this grotesque overcharging?’
Do readers have any useful suggestions on how to avoid the overcharging?.

Along with a cycling strategy came Park-and- Ride, Dial-A-Bus – encouraging people to use public transport – and Footstreets, one of Europe’s largest pedestrianisation schemes. If you made it an order, we would have an alibi and they cannot object.’With a hint of testiness, the Minister summed it up: ‘Anyone who does not want to go does not go I have great respect for the concerns of the mothers. Ms de Sancha said she felt no guilt about his resignation but was ‘very sad’. Johnny Giles, one of the uncompromising midfielders into whose boots he stepped at Elland Road, was prominent among those who decried the signing of Jones, but Wilkinson thought he was the ideal player to get the club out of the Second Division, and so it proved. Bernard Fouquet, ginger-bearded, unassuming and softly spoken, is clearly proud as his potential customers swoon over a glass of his 1990 Vouvray Cuvee Alexandre.