I said it sounded appalling, and she would far better use her writing skills campaigning to get these manifestations removed from the British cultural scene. Never have so many meanings been concentrated into one stage property. And I think they're vermin.'Teresa is a bonny fighter, which is what she says Mrs Thatcher once called her, but she came relatively late to political fighting. Even so, Prantera has a final surprise up her sleeve, and it redeems the romanticism of the rest. In a warning aimed at European nations, particularly France, they said: 'The time for pledges and commitments is long past.' Ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum (Apec), which includes the US, Japan, China and 14 other Pacific Rim economies, said 'concrete steps' were required to improve market access in agricultural as well as industrial goods and in services. At the Dube Bowls Club, for example, tucked away in the heart of Soweto, retired blacks are practising hard for a forthcoming competition against whites in Pretoria, heart of Afrikanerdom.

CORRECTION (PUBLISHED 11 MARCH 1994) APPENDED TO THIS ARTICLE Eighteen pupils have been suspended from two schools after being accused of taking or supplying drugs, it was revealed yesterday. Fifteen teenagers have been 'indefinitely excluded' from Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw comprehensive, in Trevethin, Pontypool, Gwent. These relate to trends in the levels of dental decay in children. I knew they were there, only because I saw them on postcards, whose pictures showed not a wisp of a cloud.One of the usual pleasures of cycling is to stop every now and then at some place of refreshment, say a pub or a small cafe But New Zealand offers little opportunity for this. PETER LILLEY, Secretary of State for Social Security, will tomorrow resist pressure for radical reform of the Child Support Agency when he announces new targets and a business plan to make the agency more efficient. The long periods of waiting must have been even worse for people who did not have a prodigious workload. When Pantani was signed by Chiappucci's team, Carrera, he recalled: 'I was so proud that I did not even look at the cheque.' The Italian's third place goes nicely with his runner-up spot in the Tour of Italy, both gained by his lively mountain racing.He and Chiappucci are of the same effervescent style but the latter was sidelined by sickness in a race that lost 72 riders to various causes, but particularly the stifling heat and fast pace.Whether it was made easier for Indurain by the loss of many of his main rivals to injury and sickness is disputable.

Jack Jones of UBS Phillips & Drew is understood to have reduced his forecast from pounds 165m to pounds 157m pre-tax, while David Ireland of Hoare Govett has trimmed his forecast from pounds 165m to nearer pounds 160m.Last year Williams, which makes a range of DIY products, military bridges and fire-fighting equipment, made pre-tax profits of pounds 168m.First-half profits were hit by lower deliveries of military bridges and higher interest charges, partly reflecting the cost of a 10 per cent stake in Racal Electronics. But in a letter to Monty Moss, chairman of clothing firm Moss Bros, Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Employment, rules out legislation to prevent shops from forcing new employees to work on Sundays.'The Government's view is that working days and times should in general be .. The change announced yesterday will affect about 500 people and will cost MGN about pounds 20m over four years.In a joint announcement, Colin Cornwall, the chairman of the trustees of the MGN pension funds, and Charlie Wilson, MGN's managing director, said: 'This is extremely good news for our members. The raised beds have wooden covers, on top of which stand massed ranks of cyclamen in pots But the beds themselves are not wasted.

The last thing I remember is Stallone leaping out with anAK-47, Professor Snoddy shouting 'Don't ruin the feathers with the bullets]' and me being woken up by the sound of the firing.This dream is shortly to be turned into a major action picture: 'When Poultry Ruled the Earth' All rights reserved.. Men do not confess it to each other - which is fine, I think.When Blake Morrison published his much-praised and autobiographical And When Did You Last See Your Father last year, many men (I include myself) were, not shocked exactly, but certainly suprised that he described himself masturbating in the bath - as a man in his forties, mortgage, wife, kids. It is, as the man said, bad players who are the luxury.He has, too, shown the right attitude since his early-season disagreements with the then Saints manager Ian Branfoot, saying, 'I've lost weight. She couldn't guarantee his personal freshness, she said, because they'd had their fish in the bath ever since the tank shattered seven months ago.It was too good to be true. Fourth was another Toyota, followed by a Nissan, with Derek Bell, making his farewell performance, sixth in the Gulf Porsche.Irvine said: 'It's amazing where you find the reserves when you need them. In eastern Germany, 51 per cent consider themselves to be better off now.Allensbach places much of the responsibility with the authorities for this seemingly unjustified decline in willingness to make sacrifices.