I WOULD guess that of all the great works of literature in the English language James Joyce’s Ulysses is the least read

I WOULD guess that of all the great works of literature in the English language, James Joyce’s Ulysses is the least read. Factors have been a highly speculative investment environment, political uncertainty, the devaluaton of the rupee and a decline in the national stock index of 21 per cent. Why should those people in Royal Crescent be able to dictate to the city because of who they are?’The allegation that the Royal Crescent Society – president Air Chief Marshall, Sir John Barraclough, vice-president the Earl of Stockton – speaks only for the rich and powerful touches a raw nerve with Michael Daw, its chairman, a retired Admiralty civil servant.’Most of the houses are in flats, there are a couple of millionaires, but there are lots of everyday people and one house is a council house.’It’s a common myth that we are all rich and influential people and a myth that needs to be dispelled We welcome tourists, but not in buses. The group, which counts Damien Aspinall, son of John, and Jamie Packer, son of Kerry, among its directors, made pounds 1.5m before tax on turnover up from pounds 12.9m to pounds 50.5m.

The German, incidentally, looked as though his mind was travelling down corridors other than the aisles at Mothercare on Saturday as he disposed of Argentina’s Javier Frana on Court One.Like Becker, Bates believes he now has a better perspective on life He also believes he is a better player. Much is made of the decline of cricket in schools, but little is said about the efforts which keep the game going at grassroots, and which bring youngsters like these through to representing their country. ‘They get mad and stare at me.’ Bill Hicks, a white American, is one of the few comedians she admires. Bombay, according to some social workers, may have nearly 100,000 prostitutes, and if each sleeps with five to eight clients a day, it is easy to comprehend why Aids is spreading so rapidly.City health workers claim that the number of prostitutes carrying the Aids virus has risen alarmingly, from 0.5 per cent in 1986 to 32 per cent last year. They can’t help it: they are mostly men and their hair falls out; their eyesight fails and they need glasses, and they get pasty from the late nights. He succeeds Damien Richardson, who was sacked as manager two weeks ago.The Leeds United left-back, Tony Dorigo, misses tonight’s Coca-Cola Cup second-round second-leg game at Scunthorpe.

EARLY next year the name will be announced of the first Governor of an independent Bank of England. But modern tankers carry anchor handling equipment familiar to Victorian engineers. We have got that down to about 3.5 million, but there’s still a long way to go and the shantytowns around the cities are growing bigger all the time.’Many of Chile’s problems are associated with success. Mr Hart said F&C successes last year included its bearish stance on sterling, which led it to repay dollar loans and switch borrowings into sterling before the Black Wednesday currency crisis. Police said members of the group, who claim to belong to the Canadian ‘Mic Mac’ tribe, were not Indians but a ’sect or life style’ Most have French passports. All jails in the new system would have performance indicators published on their treatment of inmates. From what Major said and what Hurd said, it would appear they got a message from someone telephoning the Ambassador in Washington 20 minutes before the attack.’Although there was no Tory dissent, those doubts were shared by leading Tory sources.