Recently Trade Indemnity rented two and a half floors of the tower in Canada Square while Reader's Digest is thought to be taking up

Recently, Trade Indemnity rented two and a half floors of the tower in Canada Square, while Reader's Digest is thought to be taking up another block.If the banks get pounds 700m-pounds 800m for the project they will have covered their outstanding loans. Although Mr Reichmann has co-ordinated the investors' group, his own equity stake is thought not to be more than about 10 per cent Prince al-Waleed is thought to be in for a similar figure. The biggest single investor is the US-based CNA Financial Corporation.. Property agents expect this totransform Canary Wharf's fortunes. He added that the banks would only be interested in a cash deal.Mr Reichmann is keen to win back control of Canary Wharf, which he developed between 1989 and 1992. When the development went into administration it helped to bring down the rest of the Reichmann brothers' property empire in Canada, the US and elsewhere.Analysts see the key to the development's success as the Jubilee Line extension which will connect Canary Wharf to central London by Tube Completion is due on 31 March 1998.

An arrogant, combative conservative, he became a hero earlier this year by fending off American negotiators in a dispute over car imports. In August he reinforced his reputation as a patriot by attending services at a controversial war shrine on the 50th anniversary of Japan's Second World War defeat.Foreign diplomats are wary of his nationalism; all month, television and newspapers have carried emblematic images of Mr Hashimoto practising his hobby - kendo, the art of fencing with bamboo swords. But as he takes over the LDP leadership from the moderate Foreign Minister, Yohei Kono, there is little chance that his dynamism will find any immediate expression.The problem lies in the uneasy coalition which has governed Japan for 14 months. Not only is a coalition of environmental groups bearing down on it , but so is a growing number of members of Congress and President Bill Clinton. But, as its columnist Richard Cohen (white) acknowledged yesterday, it does have a "goal" that 25 per cent of new recruits should be from minorities and 50 per cent women.

In letters to the magazine, Donald Graham, the publisher, and Len Downie, the managing editor, accuse Ms Shalit of inaccurate reporting. RUPERT CORNWELL Washington Washington's self-obsessed media world is in uproar, not over a sensational leak from the White House or the ethical merits of publishing the Unabomber's treatise. Although private sector workers believe the public sector has a cushy life, these views coexist with a degree of approval for the public sector. Deregulation is required by the European Union; the French exchequer needs to cut costs President Chirac is pledged to both. These power struggles are a reflection of huge cuts in defence spending since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.. But the power cut left several ageing submarines without outside power, news reports said. Holed up in their hotel on the Formentor promontory, the leaders were unable to take any advice from Majorca's holidaymakers or to hear the drubbing their summitry was receiving on the beaches."What's it all about? A waste of our money.

During the war he joined the resistance and was sentenced to death in absentia by the Fascist Salo Republic.It's not as though anyone will have to live on his square. The headlines have worried the left, which has treated the allegations very seriously. They also earnt money from making the birch hoops that bound the barrels to store herring on the coast.Yet their dwellings were primitive in the extreme. Later in the 19th century an enlightened landowner nearby, Octavius Smith, developed his Ardtornish estate as a deer-forest and tried to rebuild some of the lost communities, but Inniemore was never reoccupied.Then, after the First World War, the site was bought by the Forestry Commission, which in those days was so single-minded that its employees were ordered to use every square yard of ground, regardless of what stood on it.

What makes Inniemore so poignant is that we know exactly when and why its people fled. If one's crying, I know it's not under its mother and I have to start again."Once a week I go out rabbit-shooting, about 9pm. Pheasants are remarkably stupid, and if we do it without trapping a leg we've done well."At 7pm I feed my dogs, then it's teatime, when I talk to my wife about the day After tea, I put the chicks away for the night Then I stand and listen for a bit. I `bit' the pheasants with rings through their nostrils to stop them pecking each other to death.