‘He’ll just ask you to do things,’ says Paul Meston, one of the fairies. This suggests that buying an annuity should be undertaken even more carefully than most financial transactions There are a number of alternatives. The announcement that the Vatican and Israel are to set up a commission to prepare for the establishment of [...]

Britain’s world junior champion, who has spent the last year living up to his pugnacious predictions, had a suitably combative choice of music when he competed just over a week ago – the ‘War Fanfare’ from Rocky IV. An aristocrat living in a family pile, he invited a girlfriend along to his honeymoon and told [...]

Peter Swann, a contracts manager with a construction firm, drives a two-litre Vauxhall, which had a list price of pounds 14,600 when it was bought in August 1992.
A colleague drives an almost identical model, but with one difference: when it was bought in January 1993, the list price was pounds 13,580. The European Commission has [...]

‘Well, at least it’s eye-catching,’ said EMI in defence.But now the Britten Quartet are making a move that, they hope, will finally begin to alter public perceptions. Mr McNamara has written to Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, asking him to use his prerogative to have the cases re-examined by the [...]

Brecht’s familiar modernist debunking of the notion of individual personality is triumphantly exemplified. Over the fish, he led them on like lambs with his attention and charm. Members of the band performed after the screening.Mexico’s Presumed Guilty (Presunto Culpable) by Roberto Hernandez received the Audience Award for Best International Feature, about an imprisoned man for [...]

They had played the first half football and they could have been comfortably ahead at the interval, but for an inspired display by Tony Parks in the Falkirk goal.The former Spurs goalkeeper had two excellent saves in the latter stages of the half as St Mirren exerted increasing pressure and Jefferies recognised the contribution of [...]