Many have refused to become tenants

Many have refused to become tenants.Nationwide is working on a new mortgage-to-rent scheme and Mr Melville-Ross said it might have to take a tougher line in switching people into tenancy agreements.According to the council, lenders repossessed 35,750 houses in the six months to the end of June, 8.2 per cent fewer than the 38,930 possessed in the second half of 1991. The prize will be two bottles of a delicious Italian sauvignon and chardonnay blend, 1991 Avignonesi Bianco, from Reid Wines near Bristol.. ‘My husband’s got one just like that.’ Starts pushing Mum’s chair Mum ignores this, we protest. Legacies may be a painless way of giving to charity, as Mr Sharpe wrily observes, but none the less a certain delicacy is necessary from charities when reminding supporters of the transitory nature of life. But best of all was a little glass house containing a mock-up of an African lake.I have seen some bizarre sights in Moscow but none to beat the vision of Vadim, a stereotypical Russian figure with a full beard, standing in swimming trunks up to his waist in warm water tending his beloved violet-hued Zanzibar water-lilies I wiped the steam off my glasses and he was still there. Fighting between Muslims and Croats to the west of Sarajevo has impeded the flow of UN aid, and some comes through Serb territory to the east.If the Bosnian Serbs are attacked, the flow of aid from that direction will be halted, while the effect on the routes through Croatia is uncertain. In any case, the actor playing Aschenbach is miscast, one of nature’s Mr Pooters rather than the man whose noble features were modelled on those of Mahler, so the scale of his humiliation, like much else in the production, feels diminished.Continues at the Assembly Rooms until 4 Sept (031-226 2428)..

Lasmo ‘could be the next BP’ – shorthand for the fact that the same American investors who snapped up BP when their British brethren were bearish already own nearly a fifth of Lasmo. There has been a marked decline in the amount of work available to the young bar, while its numbers are increasing. King Hussein oversees not only the Haram al-Sharif, but 850 mosques, and numerous religious institutions, as well as large chunks of land, in the West Bank and Jerusalem.King Hussein never relinquished his custodial role of the Holy Sites through the Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awkaf). As every noodle salesman and his mother piled into the stock market earlier this month, Daim Zainuddin, an economic adviser to the government and widely recognised as the savviest speculator of all, said the market was too speculative and down it plunged.Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad denies this was intentional: ‘We don’t want to be interfering because the stock market must function on its own.’. But the Foreign Secretary continues to talk of Russia’s justified ‘interests, both economic and political, in other parts of the former Soviet Union’. The company expects that investigation to finish within a few months.The SFO has interviewed Mr Walker twice.

‘A rent of pounds 6,000 seemed rather high bearing in mind this is a pokey little village hall in the middle of nowhere,’ she said. These are tough times for the Dorchester Group, the once proud cabal of building company finance directors who liked nothing better than to lounge around the famous London hotel while pondering a common dividend strategy. The interim dividend has been held at 2.75p although the payment was not covered by earnings in the six months to 30 June.Following the results Perry shares fell by 8p to 113p, which compares with a published net asset value of 225p a share.Richard Allan, chairman, said he was hopeful that trading conditions would not deteriorate further in the second half of the year.He warned that without an upturn in the economy it would be unrealistic to expect an improvement in the company’s fortunes.Mr Allan said that although the key August market for cars was of a similar size to last year’s, Perry dealerships were reporting improved results.Operating profits were 16 per cent lower at pounds 2.14m after a 3 per cent cut in administration expenses. The show’s 23- year-old promoter Rangzib Nazir (who also runs a chain of textile shops, which is possibly why he appears to have a mobile telephone welded to his ear) had hoped for more.However, compared to Manchester’s famous Hacienda Club, which is having a quiet night just a few doors down the road, the joint is jumping.The dancing is frenzied. She was admitted to hospital last Saturday with ruptured membranes and in spontaneous labour and had continued in labour. He needs still less encouragement to get into a rage about the manner in which the white rugby authorities have deliberately neglected, as he sees it, the development of rugby in the black communities. I would mention it except that nobody ever mentions Tim Dalton.