Short of cash to run their practices the solicitors had ‘borrowed’ money from funds held on behalf of their clients

Short of cash to run their practices, the solicitors had ‘borrowed’ money from funds held on behalf of their clients.As with large corporate frauds, one of the first questions to be asked is whether the auditors were caught napping. Lima was assassinated by the Mafia last year.The news was announced by Mr Andreotti himself. The passing fads which often attract far more attention than they deserve, and quickly run to seed, are the annuals: today Sweet Valley High and the Animals Of Farthing Wood, yesterday Biggles and Dr Dolittle, 100 years ago Henty’s deeds of derring-do and Empire. TWICE holing out from greenside bunkers is hardly enough to justify announcing Seve Ballesteros’ imminent return to former glory.

It is believed that the family is considering the question of a private prosecution; a civil action is already being pursued.Mr Pryce, 30, from Wolverhampton, a former British karate international who suffered from psychiatric problems, was arrested after jumping in front of an ambulance. ‘Museums are fundamentally an 18th-century conception realised in a 19th-century box. Abdillahi Hassan, who runs a support group for women who have lost limbs in the bombing or been tortured, said that single mothers found it all but impossible to cope with the loss of the large extended families who supported them in Somalia before the war.’They are walking the streets of the East End, battle-scarred and ignored,’ she said. ‘The surprise is that it took so long for anyone to do it,’ says Yvette Livesey, the event’s executive director, who says she got hooked on the idea after nobody could come up with a convincing reason not to do it. Many will be at either Newbury or The Curragh, where the Irish St Leger lavishes pounds 150,000 in prize-money on horses who are generally below that class.

Officials in Dublin are worried that further falls in sterling could put it under pressure again.Leading article, page 18Conflicting signals, page 20Gavyn Davies, page 21. The winners will include not only Londoners but also users of the NHS in the rest of the country, who should at last receive a fair share of resources.The author is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Birmingham University.(Photograph omitted). But with tickets expected to be worth 10 times their face value, touts are likely to be present in force in the daily queues.A further loophole in the attempts to prevent profiteering has been the advance sale of 10 per cent of tickets to parties of up to 25 people, including 25,000 to the travel trade, which has been able to sell expensively packaged exclusive tours based on admission. The Liberal Democrats published proposals last year and the Labour Party is working on plans.Of course, there would be losers. They seem to consider it a privilege to be allowed to fly with their airline.’

D Horlock of Fordingbridge, however, takes exception to my ‘whingeing and whining’ He writes: ‘You must be a very difficult person to please.

Bereaved, browbeaten and obsessive, Gilmore tries to understand the genesis of his disturbed family. The death, from cancer, of his first wife, Bertha Yates, left him emotionally shattered, and with two young children. The fans adored their Dodgers – they are known now as ‘The Boys of Summer’, the title of a best-selling book about them – and Campy was one of their extra-special favourites. TWO CAR BOMBS shattered the centre of Rome soon after midnight last night, an hour after five people had been killed by a similar bomb in Milan At least 21 people were wounded in the two attacks. ‘Since my marriage ended two years ago, I’ve been out with a number of women and I haven’t found it difficult meeting them.