'David Irving only comes into this in the sense that he was the one that tipped us off

'David Irving only comes into this in the sense that he was the one that tipped us off. Then it takes three years for the toads to grow to adult size and for us to assess how well it has worked,' Dr Beebee said. But Mr Perot made light of that: 'I've no experience in running up a dollars 4.5 trillion debt I've no experience in Congressional gridlock. London Underground would move its engineering department, employing 2,000 people, to Canary Wharf if the line was built.The banks - Barclays, Lloyds, Credit Lyonnais, Credit Suisse, Commerzbank and Kansallis-Osake-Pankki - agreed to provide pounds 100m immediately and pounds 300m over 30 years, as originally offered by Canary Wharf's developers, Olympia & York.The banking consortium had previously made the contribution conditional on 2,500 civil servants being moved to Canary Wharf.The extra money will increase the banks' exposure to Canary Wharf and they will take extra charges over properties there..

Indeed, the Royal Opera House seems to have heeded the opera's status as 'ideal gramophone opera', casting Francois Le Roux (from Claudio Abbado's recording) as Pelleas, Frederica Von Stade (from Karajan's) as Melisande, with Abbado himself conducting. But this is the theatre, and this production (by the late Antoine Vitez, first seen in Vienna, here revived by Lorenzo Mariani) strives to establish a true stage language. Not only does Workman's Wood look magnificent, its output of high- grade timber is helping to cut down the nation's vast bill for imports, at the same time reducing - no matter how marginally - the pressure on tropical rain forests.Tomorrow sees the publication of a new handbook, Woodlands to Visit in England and Wales, which gives details of more than 130 private woods open to the public, many for the first time. The fact is, the Church of England is both Catholic and reformed. United Nations forces in Bosnia are pressing ahead with reinforcements and may be reorganised - possibly giving Britain a more important role - in spite of recent suggestions that the UN might withdraw if the situation deteriorates.

'You've got to win on the first vote; you've got to go hell for leather,' one said.Anticipating the ploy of a Government abstention on the main motion, Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, said yesterday that if a Commons majority backed ratification with the Social Chapter, it would be Mr Major's 'moral and political duty to accept Parliament's decision'.Jack Cunningham, Labour's foreign affairs spokesman, said that if Mr Major defied the will of the House, 'in my view such an action would merit the response of a vote of censure by the House of Commons'.. Maxwell juxtaposes heavies and rude mechanicals, high rhetoric and low jokes, valour and cowardice. That is the menacing inference being drawn on the party's right wing from his - other - rhetorical question to Mr Brunson: 'Would you like three more of the bastards out there?'That may prove the most important single finding to emerge from the tape's deconstruction, and there is more to say about it But there are others. The first family we filmed were the Piggotts, Earl and Doreen, played by Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin. George Orwell tried to act as a security guard, protesting at the invasion of day-trippers who were eroding the word's clarity of purpose, but it was a lost cause. News is trickling out of Afghanistan of a vast amount of silver and gold treasure that has been discovered by tribesmen, 55 miles south of the Afghan capital Kabul. It is understood that it consists of three tonnes of mainly silver coins, and 100 kilos of solid gold plates and jewellery.

If you see a tall man with a beard on the ferry, wincing with every step, don't for heaven's sake offer him mussels and whiskey. THE Criminal Justice Act will dramatically affect the way certain offenders are dealt with by the courts Here are examples. Both the BBC and the reshaped ITV network have to take significant chunks of their material from independents That's the theory. The race doctor stood in front of a mirror to imagine how the operation should be carried out and dictated the instructions to be sent. The Foreign Office believes there is a 'glimmer of hope' the ICRC will be allowed by Israel to bring out nine Palestinians recognised to have been deported 'by mistake' and probably some medical cases. Children who are undernourished or in poor health may become very ill with measles: in Africa and Asia it still kills hundreds of thousands of children every year, and an African proverb tells mothers not to count the number of children they have until all have had measles. For centuries virtually all children caught measles before the age of 10, but a single attack usually gave lifelong immunity. In middle age the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey (a chap of steely intellect beneath his Woosterish pose) was formidable indeed.