While the players played out to the inevitable draw, Derbyshire’s acting captain John Morris scored 83 from 99 balls with 12 fours and two sixes. They came up with chamber pots and poured shit on our blankets There were no police. The performances are impeccable: it would have been easy to make Haroon a caricature but Seth is too great an actor to fall into the irrepressible-native trap. To avoid costs for employers, employees and the Inland Revenue, loans provided by an employer are currently not taxed where the benefit is less than pounds 300.This means that in most cases a loan of under pounds 4,000 is exempt from tax in 1993/4. One government business manager suggested it would give him the opportunity to ’sell’ the outline of any deal before it was finalised.Time is running out if the four countries are to be in the EU by the agreed date – 1 January 1995.

Darren Peacock, the QPR stopper, travelled to Tyneside yesterday and is expected to sign today for a pounds 2.75m fee – a record for a British defender, writes Henry Winter. Yesterday, furious Tory ministers were still trying to find out why the committee of four MPs, headed by the right-wing Tory, Tony Marlow (Northampton N), had turned down the project.A group of South-east Tory MPs were also seeking meetings with Mr MacGregor to press the case for the Bill.There are two other ways the Government can continue with the project. In the past five years, loyalist groups have killed about 20 people with Sinn Fein associations; several recent victims have been women.’For a long time women in Sinn Fein walked round thinking we weren’t really targets, that men were a sort of buffer zone between us and the loyalists,’ Ms Gillespie said, ‘but now women are being killed, and that deters a lot of women from standing.’Offices she and other Sinn Fein councillors used at Belfast City Hall were last week blown up by Protestants.A few years ago the party fleetingly took up a pro-abortion position, but this was hurriedly abandoned when it became evident that it was a guaranteed vote-loser in Ireland. Instead, the unsuccessful hat-trick ball went to the obdurate Ellison.Mark Bowen, a seam bowler from Redcar, had earlier taken his maiden first-class wicket, that of Carl Hooper, the West Indies Test batsman. Would he run for a fourth term as Spanish Prime Minister or stand down in favour of new blood?Yesterday, Felipe Gonzalez put them out of their misery, but not until he had put the wind up more than 30,000 supporters packed into Las Ventas bullring to celebrate 10 years of Felipismo. POLITICIANS make glib use of such economic catchphrases as ‘wealth creators’ and ‘export-led growth’. The Wendy house we built for the children is still standing on theisland in the lake that we cleared.’Would he take it back? ‘It’s a bit too big now the children have left.

Mr Mubarak and Mr Christopher discussed ways of restarting the stalled Middle East peace talks The Egyptian leader will meet President Bill Clinton today.. Comics were being treated like cattle, in-out, in-out, do this, do that. He appears more concerned about the disappointing time he’s had in Britain. Monty, resplendent in dark brown wavy mohair with suede pads, is the creation of American designer Kathy Wallace. Some residents tie up their Careline cord rather than have it dangle like a symbol of dependency.The nursing-home end of the market has not taken off.