The budget announced yesterday aims to cut the deficit to 3

The budget, announced yesterday, aims to cut the deficit to 3.25 per cent of annual national output in 1994, down from a huge 10 per cent in 1984.The Netherlands continues to spend 2bn guilders ( pounds 614m) a year on the arts, or about 1 per cent of government expenditure – proportionately four times what Britain spends It is administered through independent arts foundations. Unconfirmed reports said that the police were searching for files and archives, possibly those which shed light on Mr Kertes’s career as chief of the federal secret police.As the federal government met in emergency session last night to deal with this severe challenge to its authority, there was little by way of explanation from either Serbian or federal officials. Since the decision six years ago to build the pounds 300m, 600-bed Westminster and Chelsea hospital near by, change was inevitable.Yet the shock was palpable when the future of Charing Cross – whose site is valued at pounds 123m – was put in doubt during the summer after North West Thames health authority suggested the accident and emergency department, with 68,678 patients last year, should shut.Professor Roger Greenhalgh, chairman of the hospital’s medical council, was quick to put a gloss on the proposals, saying they represented a ‘clear vision of a bright new future’, with it becoming a specialist hospital. Clearly, by the logic of those who fear the influence of television, inflammatory broadcasts of Budget speeches should be halted immediately. Do that and you’ve next to no chance of saving par on the plateau green. If somebody says, for instance, that they like something I’ve written, and I know it’s something I’ve not wanted to do because it isn’t right, something of those emotions will come up.

I was so amazed to discover that, secretly, my parents didn’t care about that.Jill Tweedie’s book ‘Eating Children’, an account of her own childhood and first marriage, is published by Viking ( pounds 16.99).(Photograph omitted). Pergolesi and Alessandro Scarlatti’s invocations to the Virgin Mother sit comfortably enough together, and perhaps under other conditions I might have guiltily enjoyed Dutoit and the Montreal Sinfonietta’s soft-focus approximations of the early 18th century – authentic it isn’t. If you want details, you’ll have to wheedle them out of me.’Wheedling then, Salisbury – who had an apprenticeship in the service division of Steinway at the age of 16 – doesn’t just tune, he works pianos He’s half-mechanic, half-musician. The Actors’ Touring Company should be loudly applauded in its attempts to restore its classic status more than 300 years later.7:84’s Twilight Shift, a new play by the poet Jackie Kay, also harks back to a lost era, in which working Scottish mining communities were not a rarity. ALLIED, the carpet company renowned for its perennial cut- price sales, has been sold by Asda to Carpetland Carpet Centres, the biggest surviving remnant of the failed Lowndes Queensway Group

Asda is receiving no money for the company. Others prefer to sit around tables in the back room and select from more than 40 board games, including chess and backgammon, as well as Mousetrap and Buckeroo. Hers was fashionably austere, performed in silence, the kind ‘to which painters came’.

Every innovation is seen as dreadful.’Nevertheless there is a creeping sense that technology is taking over. Between 6.5 and 7.5 milligrammes per litre was discharged, compared with the safe limit of 0.4 milligrammes.Judge Richard Jenkins said that the company could not be blamed for human error, but added that the matter was of ‘considerable public concern’.. Chioccioli is no threat this week as he is more than 24 minutes in arrears.In Alpe d’Huez earlier yesterday there were more family affairs as Greg LeMond departed for home with his mother, father, wife Kathy and their boys, Geoffrey and Scott.After his retirement through fatigue, the American has shelved plans for an attack on the world hour record next month in Mexico. Investigators estimate the group had smuggled up to 200kg of heroin a month into Germany and the Netherlands.. The addition of a few instrumental numbers allowed him to scat along with his own guitar, his flexible voice covering up for some speedy, but not always accurate fretwork.Benson favours a banjo style of guitar playing that sits comfortably on top of the wave of light percussion, flowing guitar lines and synthesisers supplied by a tight six-man band Tonight, a full orchestra added a touch of strings.