In windy conditions at Stade Roland Garros yesterday, Bruguera again ended Jim Courier's campaign, but one round earlier and for a set less than last year, and Sweden's Magnus Larsson was blown away before you could say Berasategui. It was Courier's first defeat before the final here since losing to Andre Agassi in the fourth round in 1990, but the 1991 and 1992 champion could hardly expect to prosper when handing his opponent 64 unforced errors in 39 games. SPRING is on the way. Maybe that was so in the past, but this year I didn't find anything particularly advanced, or fashionable, or genuinely new Instead we get a very good view of the middle ground of art This is what we should expect. John Utter was officially 'retired' in 1975, and in April 1978 Johanna Schutz was dismissed by Blum on the grounds that she was unstable and away a lot.Only after the departure of the far from unstable Schutz did Blum assume complete control and begin to make her pronouncements to the world.

SPEAKING of German archives, I hear they proved the undoing of Gordon Foxley, the former MoD procurement official who was convicted last week for taking pounds 1.5m in bribes Foxley thought he was safe from investigation. The Portuguese driver, prominent in the International F3000 series this year, has already made two appearances for the team in Italy and Portugal. Rental income rose a third to pounds 4.1m ( pounds 3.0m), thanks in part to a 22 per cent appreciation of the dollar against sterling. That's why so many estate agents sold out.'Initially, the agents were impressed by their new partners 'They brought in a lot of expertise,' says Minchin 'We thought they knew what they were doing We were wrong They didn't know anything at all about estate agency. By the outbreak of World War I, Shchukin owned 450 French paintings, including 51 Picassos, 39 Matisses, 17 Gaugins, 16 Derains, 13 Monets, seven Rousseaus and four Van Goghs.

The Unionist tradition has been misrepresented.'In 1975 he emerged as press officer for William Craig's Vanguard Party, a far-right Unionist group. They were joined by judges, police, lawyers and others to celebrate the relaunch of the world's first refuge for battered women and their children.Twenty-two years after Chiswick Family Rescue was founded by Erin Pizzey, it is now to be known simply as Refuge to reflect its wider role in research, lobbying for change in policy and law, its 24-hour national crisis line and provision of refuge for up to 50 women and 120 children in four homes.The relaunch came on the eve of the publication of a report by the Home Affairs select committee of MPs, which is widely expected to recommend changes in the law governing domestic violence and better provision for those fleeing abuse.The committee last examined domestic violence in 1975 and recommended the setting up of 800 refuges for women around the country.Eighteen years on there are just 200 and for those at Refuge - held up as a model in the fight against domestic violence world-wide - it is a bitter irony that it is constantly fighting for survival. No, daughter Eleanor does not actually cleave to mother Paula, thank goodness: they wouldn't be able to stop insulting each other long enough to have sex, anyway. Take British Aerospace, Britain's largest exporter.At the end of last year, the stockbroker Smith New Court expected it to make profits of pounds 220m before tax this year. In the short story Long Distance someone complains: 'Why should daughters be sacrificed to the whims of the father?' It's a theme that is elaborated on in A Thousand Acres. This year, fashion pundits tell us, workwear is one of the main style themes. Male culture isn't going to make me feel embarrassed about my looks.'How about going round with a shaved head, men's denim shirts and huge boots? That must lead to the occasional comment 'Aye, homophobia is bad In Newcastle and in London.