The banks fall over themselves to win new student accounts but for job-hunting school leavers there is no cash or

The banks fall over themselves to win new student accounts, but for job-hunting school leavers there is no cash or cheap overdraft – advantages they would find most useful.Banks offer the token gesture of discount music vouchers or cheap driving lessons, which are no use when you cannot find a job or earn too little to splash out on CDs.This year Midland Bank offers students a cash incentive of pounds 15 and an interest-free overdraft of pounds 400. They no longer ache, those wounds, for grass has softened their barrenness.But they give the city, not so long ago one of the most bewitching in Europe, an abnormal air. Mr Davis said that with tourism now the responsibility of the Department of National Heritage, the BTA was facing a new examination.Flight Seekers, a tour operator specialising in seat-only flights to Mediterranean countries, has ceased trading, the Civil Aviation Authority announced yesterday.The authority said it had called in its bond of pounds 162,000 and was arranging for passengers to fly out until midnight tonight. GEORGE BUSH’S need for a pre-election boost was blamed yesterday for Britain’s loss of a pounds 1bn contract to supply tanks to Kuwait. The final decision will be made by a special meeting of clubs on 5 January.. Goldsmith blames the English adoption of the word ‘turkey’ on ‘the ridiculous habit, formerly prevailing, of calling every foreign object by the name of Turk, Indian, &c’.Nearly all modern turkeys are white. THE confession of a mentally retarded man who told police he was present when a 14-year-old schoolboy was sexually assaulted and killed was ruled inadmissible at the Old Bailey yesterday.

After all, news should occasionally be about happiness as well as interminable problems.. Reticence and belligerence are characteristics often found in clients who have been held in custody. What matters is the threat to his or her own security if an audit client is lost. JUST after Christmas 1975, the 38-year-old Anthony Hopkins woke up in a drunken stupor in an Arizona motel room with excrement on the floor and his career almost down the toilet. ‘I know what they stand for.’ Was he surprised to find the Government had ‘forgotten’ its policy of no taxation? ‘No I expect them to switch policies at their convenience It is just the way life is. But he added that there was an ‘element of mistrust’ surrounding him in the City, following the sharp collapse in Amber Day’s share price shortly in the months before he left.Mr Green confirmed that he has held talks with one of the big shareholders in Owen & Robinson, but he declined to make further comment.It is believed that Mr Green has been offered a 30 per cent shareholding in the group, which could be a springboard for him to establish management control.

‘Doctors who have reason to believe that a colleague’s conduct or professional performance poses a danger to patients must act to ensure patient safety.’After Dr Irani’s removal from the medical register, Sir Robert Kilpatrick, president of the GMC, took the unusual step of writing to NHS managers and the medical royal colleges reminding doctors that they have a duty to report incompetent colleagues. Ian Botham offered some resistance with 44 from 59 balls to delay the final curtain, Warwickshire, who began the day in joint second place 30 points behind Essex, pressing home their advantage as Andy Moles (65) drove them to 89 for 1 by stumps.Derbyshire may still be clinging to a mathematical chance of landing their first Championship title since 1936 but the numbers failed to add up to much at Eastbourne, Sussex dispatching them for a humdrum 248.Middlesex’s summer of discontent in the Championship continued apace at Lord’s where Gloucestershire, who have now failed to glean maximum batting points in 17 attempts, spent the day plodding to 279 for 6.. Larkin’s tone often suggests that intimacy with women was another nuisance to be endured, along with meetings of the library committee. According to Lord Lewin, then also at Dartmouth: ‘Prince Philip was a highly talented seaman No doubt about it. They are more to do with horse-trading between blocs of Arabs, Africans, South East Asians and now the Turks.