Over the past two years, Adams' results have been as impressive as anyone's, but Gelfand is one of the most complete players to have emerged from the ruins of the Soviet chess empire. 'If Mr Alway takes over,' he said to Atkinson on Monday, 'I'll be off like a dog with a cat between its legs.' ''That's as may be,' said Chapman 'However, your recent columns have been unreadable. But still Elwood kept the Irish in touch with two more magnificent penalties, and they changed ends with only four points in it at 16-12.France restarted as though they had had enough of this cheese-paring, with Lacroix this time in full flight through the centre. Delegates to the party conference - particularly the older ones - are the same sort of people who form the backbone of constituencies such as Tim Yeo's in South Suffolk. Wow] We are being held back, you say, only by our fear of power.

Would we like to profile Ms Royston, inquires a missive from her company? Not really, no But her CV is worth a look. The three Treasure brothers combined to buy it and John settled there for the rest of his life, bar the last two months. The similarities aren't entirely surprising - Graef was the pioneer of saturation filming followed by marathon sessions in the editing suite, a high-ratio method which serves well to capture the wild life of committee room and office and which has recently been refreshed by Dineen's cunning nosiness. The diversion of water from the chalk springs which should feed the rivers into new housing estates has greatly diminished their flow; changing farming practices have eliminated the water-meadows whose intricate networks of drainage provided a wonderful habitat for trout and their food, and replaced them with heavily fertilised fields running almost to the water's edge. Miss Allan, 40, who now lives at Hampton Court, Surrey, is suing Channel 4 Television over the film The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, which she claims portrayed her as a 'lady of easy virtue' who slept with Mr Terre-Blanche.Channel 4 says it never suggested an affair, but argues that such an allegation, although never made, would be justified because Miss Allan did have an affair with Mr Terre-Blanche, who is married with a daughter.Miss Shaw, said she first met Miss Allan in 1981. POLICE investigating the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings that killed 21 people and led to one of Britain's gravest miscarriages of justice announced yesterday that the case was closed and that no one was ever likely to be prosecuted for the murders. Their faith in this arrangement will be strengthened by yesterday's news that a Commons select committee on Northern Ireland is to be created.The unthreatening manner of the Irish Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds (compare Charles Haughey), combined with Sinn Fein's lukewarm reception for this week's declaration, should also reduce fears of betrayal.

How on earth then will loss of jobs in the coal industry cause more jobs to be created elsewhere so that 'employment would return broadly to its previous level'?The White Paper points out that maintaining jobs in coal would adversely affect jobs in other fuel industries. Then, having survived a tense seven minutes following the temporary suspension of Jane Parkinson, the shoot- out was resolved when Lesley Hobley converted the final stroke for victory.The championship, meanwhile, returned to Germany after 18 years of Dutch supremacy when Russelsheimer won their shoot-out with Amsterdam 3-1.In the men's competition, Sven Meinhardt's 64th minute goal gave Uhlenhorst from Germany a 1-0 win over Egara, the Spanish champions.Havant won the men's B division final when they beat WKS Grunwald, from Poland, 4-1 in yesterday's final at Havant College. They had the side-effect of a declining dollar.Japan, too, has had its own agenda. From his gently hanging corner, Hirst produced a good first save from Erik Thorstvedt; from a viciously bending free-kick, Nigel Pearson headed over.Mark Bright, with sharp opportunism,and Hirst, spectacularly, were Wednesday's predictable scorers.