The secretary-general, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, warned Israel yesterday that it would pay dearly for its offensive, saying his guerrillas would fight to the end. Do you think I’m expensive?’ ‘I say yes,’ Mr Espy said emphatically. The UN had also been instrumental in arranging a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq war and the release of the last western hostages in Beirut, he says.And he does not accept that the UN has failed in the former Yugoslavia. In fact, the terms of reference specifically ask us to report both the ‘central tendency’ of our forecasts, and to report the range.Furthermore, the seven members of the panel have also been asked to submit individual briefs, covering the outlook for the economy, along with our own specific policy recommendations.The fact that the Treasury always intended to publish all of these separate briefs shows that it saw merit in diversity.

More than 1,000 people sought hospital treatment in Athens yesterday for heart and respiratory problems caused by heavy air pollution and sizzling temperatures, Reuter reports from Athens.. In fact, while Toys isn’t perfect by any lights, it contains enough surprising moments to give pause for wonder – not least at the odium it has attracted, on both sides of the Atlantic.Another film that might be passed over, for different reasons, is A Brighter Summer Day, Edward Yang’s four-hour saga of growing up and gang warfare in Taiwan, anno 1960. But act fast, or you might find no room at the inn.ENGLAND’The great thing about Christmas at Cliveden,’ Joyce Grenfell recalled, ‘was the way the pattern was adhered to. I liken them to Ballesteros and Olazabal in the Ryder Cup.’ In practice yesterday Davies, the largest member of the team, and Nicholas, the smallest, were two under par over a course which measures 6,222 yards.Whereas the Americans have made a commitment to give every member of the side a game in the foursomes and fourballs, Walker is playing it by ear. Newcastle’s attendances are considerably healthier than that, with figures pushing 30,000, another outstanding feature of their so-far outstanding season.The Geordie club remain more than pounds 5m in the red, and it is the undying loyalty of their fans that has helped Keegan strengthen what is already proving to be a formidable promotion challenge ‘It’s our supporters who have bought Robert Lee.

‘If you’re taking on a Marchioness or something, they sometimes like to meet someone a bit older,’ says Michael Symonds, director of GM’s private bank and another ex-Coutts chappie.Mr Wells has made the most of his time off. All his friends seemed to have done better; their futures looked bright, whereas his looked bleak His hopes for an aeronautical career were finished All those years of school – wasted. In particular, it is said, journalists used the Terrace who were not entitled to use it or, though themselves entitled to do so, insinuated others on to it. Some look old before they are 30, others like Beardsley look the same as they did at 28.’Cole will be a little older before his time arrives, his 41 goals in a season of extraordinary marksmanship for Newcastle seemingly still not enough to persuade Venables to leave out one of his more experienced trio of strikers. For this, Navratilova was rewarded with a dollars 1m bonus from the International Tennis Federation, who had offered the sum for a Grand Slam in order to induce more of the leading players to compete at the Australian Open, which was held then at the end of the year.Navratilova went on to annex the Wimbledon and United States titles, bringing her winning sequence to six, before her bid for a traditional Grand Slam was terminated by Helena Sukova in the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

We know others may say we are all doom and gloom, but we are simply realistic.’The reality which concerns Motherwell is that their McLean will not last as long as Dundee United’s. The sight of West Indian fielders strolling around with their hands in their pockets was a sight for sore eyes, though the English youngsters will not be getting too carried away.In the first washed-out Test at Trent Bridge earlier in the month, the Guyanese left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul also made a double hundred. The explosion ripped a small hole in the side of the tank causing gas to escape which was then ignited.There are 22 similar gasholders throughout British Gas’s northern region, stretching from the Scottish border into Cumbria and across to the east coast. Two other interviews also concentrated on her background – what, for instance, did her parents do? And her nine brothers and sisters? But her fourth interview, with the large London firm Lewis Silkin brought a different approach.’They were the first firm that said, ‘Why do you want to be a solicitor?’ I had practised and practised for that question, but it had never been asked before,’ Ms Bardouille said.She is due to start with the firm in the autumn. Sir: On Thursday evening, while the nation was still shaking its head in bewilderment at the senseless murder of James Bulger, French and Saunders were implying to the many youngsters who are watching television at 9.30pm that smashing someone’s skull with a spade is funny.