Among the many dress-reform movements from the mid-19th to early 20th century all with a rationale of rationality Mrs Amelia Bloomer's campaign

Among the many dress-reform movements from the mid-19th to early 20th century (all with a rationale of rationality), Mrs Amelia Bloomer's campaign for the addition of trousers to women's outdoor and sporting wardrobes caused most consternation. Sainsbury, Tesco and Safeway asked a judge to quash planning permission granted by Thurrock council, Essex, to Costco, an American-based company, for a 12,880sq m warehouse with more than 800 parking spaces at the Lakeside Trading Estate. The three supermarkets claim the council acted unlawfully in treating Costco as a wholesaler rather than a retailer and failing to apply stringent local and national planning policy on retail trade.They argue that warehouses such as Costco - where fee-paying members can buy cheap food and goods in bulk - are to a significant extent engaged in retail selling.The supermarkets' counsel, David Pannick QC, said the council failed to have regard to the stated view of the Secretary of State for the Environment that warehouse clubs should be treated as retail.The hearing, was adjourned until today.. The last thing the Prime Minister wants at the moment is a fundamental examination of defence matters. He clutched the arm of his social worker, tucked his head closer for comfort and, as he became more distraught, his parents bent lower in their courtroom pew.

Yes, believe it or not, the only sex education I ever got was from the man who also lectured us on advertising and mass communications. One important characteristic is branch angle - a timber trees should have an upright habit, because this limits the possibility of getting disease in the angle, which causes ugly knots in the wood when the branch snaps off.(Photograph omitted). Aston Villa .1 Redmond og 58 Oldham Athletic. Thereafter, whenever Somerset played Hampshire, Marks would not so much take a net, as practice new walks in front of a mirror. Wednesday's third arrived in bizarre fashion when John Ebbrell's deflected clearance looped back to Nigel Worthington and the Irishman emphatically beat Southall from the left.From the kick-off, Cottee notched Everton's first goal in almost seven hours with a low strike following a strong run but Wednesday had not finished. Whatever happens at today's session, Bonn does not yet look ready to retreat, in the longer term.(Photograph omitted). 'I realised early on that it is a detailed scientific knowledge which makes certain religious beliefs untenable,' he says.Crick is in little doubt that science will one day understand human conciousness and free will in the same way we now understand the molecular genetics his discovery helped to reveal.

Witness, for example, the way in which Popeye (1980) and last year's Dennis the Menace fizzled into obscurity. If so, under the Constitution, states could be required to treat abortion as harshly as murder. 'Our children have no sports, no art, no music, no playground for games, no exams and hardly any textbooks. With fire in their bellies they hustled a curiously uncertain Leeds out of their attempted multi-passing movement and went on to produce what Lennie Lawrence, their manager, described after the match as: 'The most professional performance I've been associated with in 10 years of management.'Tactically we were spot-on, and some of my players found a new standard which they hadn't known before.'If an encounter with the champions is the best guide to a newly promoted team's future, then Middlesbrough, who were immediately relegated after their last promotion to the top division four years ago, will hardly need to rely on their manager's legendary survival skills in the season ahead.Middlesbrough's spirited all- round performance was in sharp contrast to their opponents' uncharacteristic lack of common purpose at the end of which Howard Wilkinson, the Leeds manager, drew a long breath before saying: 'It's the wrong time to draw conclusions. That doesn't interest me.'Now, Syberberg reckons, Hitler is above all business pure and simple But once he was showbusiness. Jeremy Bates, the British No 1, won the circuit last year, and Chris Wilkinson, from Southampton, was the runner-up.Wilkinson, who will be defending his points against hungry competitors from 20 nations, is joined in the main draw by Mark Petchey and Danny Sapsford, two fellow British Davis Cup players, and Andrew Foster and Andrew Richardson add to the home challenge.One grade higher than the satellites are the ATP Tour's challenger events, with prize-money ranging from dollars 50,000 to dollars 100,000.

The statements, by the House Speaker Thomas Foley and the Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy, came during a two-day US visit by Douglas Hurd, the Foreign Secretary, who went out of his way to raise the problem of Northern Ireland in meetings with both Mr Foley and the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Urging all political parties in the province who condemned violence to resume talks on Northern Ireland's future, Mr Foley described the blast and subsequent attacks on Catholics as 'senseless savagery which resolve nothing'.Atrocities of either camp, a statement said, 'must produce the broadest possible condemnation among all who claim the mantle of civilisation'. As Peggy Noonan said in her explanation of George Bush's election defeat: after lying, the worst mistake a government can make is not explaining its action.Finally, the quality of public services must be kept as high as possible, which means competent government, and no corruption.Now that Bill Clinton is on the defensive, it is easy to tick off the points on which he has fallen short in selling his deficit reduction package. In future it will add the results of national curriculum tests for 11- year-olds. Mr Portillo is not his bete noir, but the behaviour of the Thatcherite disloyalists rouses him to fury.

The senior Algerian diplomat, who has won praise across the board for his no-nonsense approach to getting food aid to desperate Somalis after nearly a year of inactivity by the UN, submitted his resignation on Monday after he was censured by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Secretary-General, for publicly criticising the UN. Non-performing assets rose slightly to dollars 199m from dollars 197m, partly related to FMB's acquisition of York Bank of Pennsylvania.Charles Cole, president and chief executive officer, said the bank's compound earnings growth of 20 per cent since 1983 amid some of the most difficult banking challenges in half a century was 'evidence of the long-term success of First Maryland's historic operating philosophy of balance and diversification'.The bank's subsidiaries include First National Bank of Maryland, York Bank, First Omni Bank, and First National Bank of Maryland, DC.AIB Group shares in London rose 3p to 194p.Tony McPoland, of Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin, called the results 'very good indeed'. Four days after imposing 'special rule' to resist what he said was a 'second October revolution', he tried to mute his earlier thunder. But when the majority in BR voted against a strike, far from being a humiliation, this actually justified the decision to hold a ballot, since the vote was held before a strike ballot became a legal requirement. With regard to the present dispute, the Government will be unwise to rely on anti-union sentiment, when it is widely perceived that the fundamental issue, as with the teachers, is the impact on staff of the implementation of radical changes without pre-planning, selective testing and building up a sufficient constituency of support.The public is actually very nervous about this, and senses that the Government, in pursuit of commercial disciplines, behaves in a way no self-respecting commercial enterprise would contemplate.Yours faithfully,ROGER STRAKERHove, East SussexThe writer was personnel director of London Underground (1984-92).. 'He's the first horse I've ever trained that I have considered good enough to run in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, and I believe there is still improvement in him,' she said.Peter Niven, the successful jockey, took up the theme. Officials said it pledged progress towards a basic rate of 20p but the manifesto commitments would be kept.The divisions on tax emerged on the eve of today's meeting between the Prime Minister, Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Social Security and Mr Portillo to hammer out how much of the welfare budget should be sacrificed in the coming ministerial contest over sharing out next year's pounds 253.6bn public spending total.Andrew Marr, page 21. The new head of Agenda, Ameen Akhalwaya, exercises power.He was appointed two weeks ago by an SABC executive desperate to be seen to be even-handed for fear of losing their jobs under an ANC government.