The ruling – Virginia Bottomley’s ‘ticking time bomb’ – means local councils that have recognised the need for a service are under a legal duty to provide it.(Photograph omitted). This committee, EDX, set up in the wake of the decision to unify the Budget, enabled the Cabinet to agree most of the spending problems in just two sessions. Which is needed, because there is a danger of our culture disappearing from screens, and other cultures taking over. Hilton Kramer edited the Arts Digest in 1954 and Heron was its London correspondent.’For 10 years I was ridiculed in London for taking the Americans seriously.

But it is fair to point out that Japan and Germany now face the same sort of structural change that Britain and the US went through in the 1980s: they have to slim down their industries too, and may find it even harder to replace manufacturing jobs with service jobs than we have. Among those to increase sales and market share this year are BMW (spearheaded by the popular 3-series), Citroen (ZX and diesels to the fore) and Vauxhall (at the expense of Ford and Rover). We said he was not suitable for adoption because his difficulties were severe and deeply ingrained In our opinion he needed long-term therapy. He points out that the aborigines play almost no role in the story, unlike the blacks in African exploration, and that filling in the blank spaces of Australia did not end in major discoveries of geographical or economic interest, with the possible exception of Sturt’s charting of the Murray-Darling river.Carter defends the typical explorer’s narrative against the charge that it is a self-aggrandising fiction and maintains that it is, rather, a metaphysical way of apprehending a novel reality. The job has gone, no prizes for guessing, to a Russian.A DAY LIKE THIS21 April 1925 D H Lawrence writes to a friend from the Del Monte Ranch in Mexico: ‘The days here are mostly hot and sunny, but can be fiendish, with a grey stone-cold wind that blows out of some frozen hell. The governments should introduce preventive detention both north and south of the border,’ the group said.The pressure on the IRA was turned up by Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in a speech yesterday confirming that ‘a significant transfer of power and authority’ to political institutions would take place, if an agreement was reached between the democratic parties, excluding Sinn Fein. A playing field that bears a similarity to the old Yeovil Town ground now has the chance of being levelled, and Murdoch may well have substantial opposition to face.Sports fans will find themselves ring-side, because the battle for the television rights to their favourite events will top the bill.

In 1986, they were pounds 238m; at pounds 280m – the industry consensus for 1993 – the rise in the meantime would be 17.6 per cent. Tuigamala revealed that he had never liked training, had never used weights and had suffered weight problems.’I know that rugby league is a very physical game, so I have to equip myself very well,’ he said.’Polynesians tend to blow up without exercise, but with the help of these guys I don’t expect to get into that position again.’His new coach, John Dorahy, has talked of Tuigamala as a potential centre, but the player himself revealed that he last played in that position at school, going straight from the pack to the wing in senior rugby.”I was too greedy, so they switched me from first to get the ball to last to get the ball,’ he said.Tuigamala, a devout Christian, also revealed that a cousin who travels the world preaching had already recommended a suitable church in Wigan. It was at the line-out, however, that Ulster were particularly woeful.A compelling feature overall was the sheer professionalism of Edinburgh’s Gavin Hastings, who could have been captaining the Lions again at Eden Park for all the difference the surroundings made to him. Cinemagic, 7 Lower Crescent, BT7 1NR (0232- 232444)
CAMBRIDGE Andrew Birkin The director will introduce a special screening of The Cement Garden at the Arts Cinema this Sunday, and lead a discussion afterwards.

There are now over 100,000 Hindus and Sikhs living in refugee camps in New Delhi, Jammu and other Indian cities. After four years as Secretary of the Institute for International Affairs he joined the Halifax Building Society in 1951.Potter served briefly as an inspector, as District Manager at Coventry and as an Assistant General Manager. The projection, as always, was an editor’s decision and had nothing to do with him. He need merely ask the electorate to approve of an unspecified new system, declare himself neutral, and suspend party discipline on the issue: if other country’s referendums are a guide, voters would reject such a pig in a poke and the issue would be killed.