Britain’s first ’supertram’ system, the Metrolink in Greater Manchester, is to double the frequency of its services. ‘Either one person doesn’t want to get involved in the day-to-day running’ Mrs Domenet said, ‘or another doesn’t pay his bills.’We were approached by the freeholder in June 1990. ‘Thought I was on my way,’ he says, peering through bottle-thick glasses, ‘can’t think what went wrong.’Duggie remains a journeyman cabaret artist. If this can be accepted then what we see is Theseus as the fairy king Oberon contriving harmony through further mastery over Hippolyta in the guise of Titania (both roles, as is now customary, are doubled) and finding a better self in seeking to reconcile the young lovers to their proper partners. We sense there is a great thirst for value here.’The expansion rate would depend on the success of the first shops and the ability to cut through planning red tape and secure leases on suitable properties.The group is talking to several landlords, and there is speculation that it is negotiating with Tesco to take excess space at some of its town centre properties.Paul Morris, stores analyst at Goldman Sachs, said: ‘This is as significant for the clothing industry as CostCo’s arrival last year was for food and hard goods.’ CostCo provoked intense industry interest with its no-frills, members-only format.Department stores such as House of Fraser and Allders were most obviously vulnerable to the TK Maxx format, Mr Morris said. The judges were Doris Lessing, Jonathan Keates and Robert Winder.

Olazabal’s approach shot cleared the pond, just, and from the front fringe the Spaniard rolled in a putt from about 30 feet for an eagle three to go to 10 under par for the championship ‘Great putt,’ Lehman said quietly to Olazabal. He added: ‘It was my New Year’s resolution to murder a human being.’Before 1993 was half over, Ireland would have murdered five gay men in the same fashion and for the simple reason that he wanted to prove he could do it; that he was someone for the police to take notice of. He must have expected criticism over the Virgin affair, possibly even calls for his resignation. The US – according to a leaked Clinton administration document – is now instructing those US officers who are nominally under UN command to feel free to disregard any UN order they may find to be ‘illegal’ or ‘militarily imprudent’. Having gone ahead a minute before half-time via the centre-back Colin Cooper’s deflected free- kick, they had to wait until the 79th minute for Kingsley Black to add a second goal.

The Terriers are not exactly doing justice to their nickname. But some felt there were indications that corporation action could be about to break out.Hanson, which is beginning to look in urgent need of a UK takeover, is one possible candidate to unleash a bid. But the strangest of all – seen repeatedly by villagers, priests and pilgrims – was a word appearing in ‘huge flame-coloured letters’ in the night sky: ‘Mir’, which in Serbo-Croat is ‘Peace’.All of this seems, of course, impossible; a tale invented by simple souls which turned into – or was turned into – a perhaps much-needed myth. The anabolic steroids used illegally by sportsmen mimic the action of male sex hormones. It is understood that some have received pounds 15,000 pay increases and company cars.The latest recruit is Walter MacGowan, governor of Strangeways Prison, Manchester. He took up the event after watching his club-mate, Mike Fibbens, win a bronze medal at the European Championships and so far this year he has not only broken Fibbens’ British record but also captured the Commonwealth mark.The two main contenders are the American duo of Matt Biondi, the defending Olympic champion, and Tom Jager, the world champion and record holder, with Alexander Popov, of the Unified Team, just ahead of Foster, who goes into the race as the fourth fastest.Wilson faces the toughest test of all in the 1500m freestyle, although going into the race he has the fifth- fastest personal best time.

There are no more coffee mornings now.We followed her wishes with the organ donation We all carry donor cards in this family. It would stop this election looking like a five-yearly farce Can we count on your vote?(Photograph omitted). When plans were announced to turn the Gare d’Orsay in Paris into a museum (now the Musee d’Orsay), they received almost universal support. According to Mark Reynier of La Reserve, one of a number of specialists with offers of 1992 white burgundy, it has ‘even more richness than the mighty 1990′. ‘If I’m not doing that then I might as well stop kidding myself and go in next week and get the knee done.’Wood, 25, won the national championship in 1989, a pause before Durie continued to dominate the event, winning the last three of her seven titles.