THE SOUTH-EAST is best placed to lead Britain out of the recession according to a

THE SOUTH-EAST is best placed to lead Britain out of the recession, according to a Lloyds Bank study published today. ‘There is no longer any national sovereignty in economic affairs,’ said Martin Bangemann, EC commissioner for industrial affairs, last week.The result has been the growth of interdependence among states.The European Monetary System was established in 1979 to help to manage interdependence. The construction of the Limehouse Link cost about pounds 260m but with pounds 15m for the land and about extra pounds 70m for rehousing 600 families whose three blocks had to be demolished to make way for the road, the eventual bill will be about pounds 345m.The run through by the taxis was part of a publicity campaign by the London Docklands Development Corporation to highlight the near completion of the road, which the corporation feels is as important to the regeneration of Docklands as the Jubilee Line tube extension, the fate of which is in the balance.The corporation’s chief engineer, Bob Blyth, confidently predicts the link will open on schedule on 17 May 1993. Martin Crowe struck 91 in just 100 balls to steer New Zealand to a last-over victory against Australia in the fourth one-day international in Hamilton yesterday.

Radio makes difficult armchair travel, but Dodwell gave us skates for castors and had us whirling across the snow to meet the locals. EVERY August, as the humid heat becomes oppressive, Peking-watchers normally await reports of seasonal sightings from Beidaihe, the seaside resort where the inner Chinese power clique gathers in the summer to discuss policy. The picture is now a great deal rosier than it was: the trade gap for the first eight months of the year is pounds 1.5bn lower than previously estimated, while the trends in trade volumes have been completely reversed to show exports rising and imports falling.
But the City is rightly sceptical. Yesterday’s ruling may not have ended the long dispute between the runners and the authorities as they may take the case to the civil courts

(Photograph omitted). It was a year that brought Britain, unprecedentedly, not just one world heavyweight boxing champion, but two (even if doubts remain, strictly speaking, over the extent to which either is truly world champion – or even British).It was a year in which Great Britain’s rugby league players dazzlingly outclassed the Kiwis and, more remarkably, England’s rugby union players comprehensively outplayed an All Blacks side which had been hailed as the best in the world.Significantly, it was a year in which, for the first time since 1895, serious noises began to be made about a possible rapprochement between rugby’s two codes – a trend as welcome as it was unexpected.But perhaps most significantly of all, it was a year in which an almost forgotten concept – the honourable defeat – made a comeback. But as one barking dog is joined by another, and then another, they constitute a scale from a toy yap to a sorrowful, bloodhound bass, which in another moment is performing in tune to a jaunty accordion. She referred to the series as ‘our saga’, which is a breach of the Trades Descriptions Act, because the format so far consists of one member of the family being interviewed on a sofa in the hotel where the whole clan is celebrating a reunion.Just when you were wondering why the researchers selected this extended family instead of all the others, it emerged that Mavis already knew the subject of last night’s opener.

They’d get the picture.”You’d threaten them?’A mournful look, the gallows chuckle ‘I wouldn’t have to.’I believed that and no mistake ‘When do we start?’ I asked.’We just have,’ he said ‘You owe me for the drinks.’This is very exciting The money will soon be pouring in.. In the shop’s warehouse before the grand opening this week, there are huge baskets packed with straw and lanterns (from pounds 9.99), tajines (from pounds 9.99), small metal barbecues (from pounds 7.99), huge wooden bowls ( pounds 29.99), painted vases (from pounds 19.99), caftans (from pounds 19.99), slippers ( pounds 24.99), and tiny, painted glasses for tea (from pounds 2.99) ‘It’s not only a commercial operation,’ says Mr Damoussi. Perhaps the Government could restore the battered morale of the teaching profession by giving it the resources to lead the attack on drugs.I finished my 1973 report by saying: ‘It is unlikely that any of our current social evils are likely to disappear; on the contrary, our drugs problem is about to begin.’ Today, illicit abuse affects almost every citizen in the land in some way. British troops are serving in Bosnia today at least in part because European foreign ministers, Douglas Hurd included, did not act in unity and strength to guide the states of the former Yugoslavia towards a peaceful resolution of their arguments.Internally, the peace of Europe is under threat from ethnic resentment and unfulfilled nationalist dreams. Thirty-two per cent rated his performance as good/very good, 37 per cent as mixed, and 30 per cent poor/very poor.

Commission disclosure, due to become compulsory at the beginning of next year, will help but even this will do little to protect the financially illiterate from the financially unscrupulous. Indeed, some of the people they are rude about have turned up as guests – Lord Parkinson, for instance, who was on Merton’s team and made him look most uncomfortable.’Yeah, well, I was,’ he laughs ‘I can’t disguise my body language. He is negotiating with Sheffield Steelers in the First Division to take over as coach.A tight opening period saw the Panthers go 2-1 up but they were 6-2 ahead by half-time, with three goals from Paul Adey, and never looked like losing.But if Panthers have problems Durham Wasps seem to be buzzing with them. Illogical but compelling.’ If there were an award for total absence of sub-text, Barker would be in with a healthy chance there, too.The Mrs Worthington Award for Discouraging New People from Entering the ProfessionGiles Havergal’s stage adaptation of Travels with My Aunt managed to conjure up Graham Greene’s populous picaresque novel with just four men in suits.This was a most ingenious way of not only lowering the morale of all budding actresses but of also offering a vividly positive image of men in suits.The Piltdown Award for the Year’s Most Widely Propagated MythThe National Theatre wins hands down for the tireless assiduity with which it put about the notion that Carousel has extraordinary psychological depth and a dark and disturbing underside. We’re unaffected by the recession because people tend to discover us when they’re feeling the pinch. The most disturbing thing about the turmoil of public debate frequently whipped up by the media in such circumstances is the arrogance that fuels it.
The inference of patriots who respond angrily to disappointments, especially when the England cricket and football teams are involved, is that the inventors of games retain a divine right to succeed at them. Perhaps the West could muster the determination to save some of Sarajevo, but nobody can be expected to rely on that.