Three years ago I went to a Buddhist retreat with our keyboard player. The pilots have also won improvements at airports in Indonesia and Egypt and at JFK airport in New York. There have been weeks of sensational allegations at a local industrial tribunal concerning systematic drunkenness and gross and sexist behaviour at the top of the Merseyside police service. My arm is sore but I shall play against England unless there is serious deterioration.'Wessels' assertion that he would play in the Headingley Test came through gritted teeth, without the consolation of a second successive win in the Tetley Bitter Challenge series.He had X-rays on the right forearm, a much photographed part of his anatomy, after being hit. RUDOLF CARTIER was in the highest echelon of television directors, writes Charles Castle. 'This season, on a yearly turnover from Bangor to Bangor if you like, I'm sure Adrian will have over 1,000 rides.'Last season it seemed as though Maguire was a loser, but there would be a lot of happy campers around if they suffered defeats such as his. She took the authority to a tribunal, and walked away with pounds 5,500 redundancy and a pounds 5,500 out-of-court settlement.She could not afford legal counsel and fought her battle alone - much of it from a hospital bed when the stress almost brought on a miscarriage.

PERHAPS the greatest tribute to the acting skills of Mark McManus, who made his name as the tough Glaswegian inspector in Taggart, came from Strathclyde Police. SOUTHERN Iraq's ancient marshlands, the largest wetland ecosystem in the Middle East, and home to the Marsh Arabs for nearly 5,000 years, will disappear within the next 10 to 20 years if the Iraqi government continues to drain them. You meet someone once, and, if you're alert to their speech patterns, a little bell goes off inside. He left saying pointedly that he was going to an all-male lunch.'There followed an exchange of letters and Lord Taylor made known to the Home Office his concern about claims that women and blacks were discriminated against.The major result so far of the hard line against alleged political correctness has been the abandonment of the first national programme for helping women offenders. He quotes from Othello to The Tempest to Coriolanus to back up this idea. And there's little doubt, too, despite the caveats above, that Viola is actually a pretentious artist. 'We will explain each other's attitude and see if we can't reason and reduce the differences,' Mr Dixit said when he arrived in Islamabad.

Blake's headed flick found the veteran Garry Thompson, whose shot flashed just past Tony Coton's left- hand post. Those years were some of the most troubled in the history of the city, with carpetbaggers from the north invading commerce and politics and trying to seat blacks in the state legislature. May I add, gentlemen, how much we all despise those members of the chattering classes who can think of nothing better to do than 'take sides', supporting either the Prince of the Princess, for this is a shared and very private tragedy for both of them. He would win for the same reasons people voted 'yes' in 1975 - the alternative would be a vote for isolation and the unknown - and, like Wilson, he would effectively settle the issue within and beyond his party for a decade.A referendum on PR offers John Smith similar practical advantages if, as generally thought, he is personally opposed.

Rupert Bear is the only bear currently featured on a British postage stamp wearing a yellow pair of trousers, a red jersey and a black and yellow scarf.2 Rupert Bear has no friends who are also bears. It has been estimated that the contents of an average bottle of perfume cost dollars 4 ( pounds 2.60) to manufacture: a heroin-type markup. The set broods tragically, but Verdi's rich irony would be better served by an opening in the comic spirit.The sets function effectively in the abduction scene and the final act, where Gilda unforgettably gropes her way to her doom through mist; Paul Pyant's lighting then evokes the sinister river and savage rain and thunder which coordinate with the music for a climax of the grandest pathos.The cast, like the orchestra and the direction, improved steadily during the evening, led by Rosa Mannion's beautifully sung Gilda. 'The parents had been plunged into a bewildering and agonising controversy,' Mr Walker wrote.