They reported less progression in their careers since their break felt less positive

They reported less progression in their careers since their break, felt less positive about their access to training and development and also felt less certain about their career prospects.The report, Beyond the Career Break, found however, that part- timers were satisfied with many aspects of their working lives and suffered less stress than their full- time colleagues.Neverthless the situation for working mothers in professional jobs seemed to be improving, women believed. She did a sappy tribute to Sammy Davis Jnr, but that was as Vegas as it got: no showgirls, only one frock change. ENGLISH rugby's enfant terrible has seemed a mixed-up kid for so long that the idea that he is suddenly focusing on an unambiguous goal - the downfall of Scotland in the Calcutta Cup at Twickenham this afternoon - is faintly shocking A conformist, no less. More Conservative MPs come from the South, so the party listens more to the South, so losing MPs in the North. The board was in discussions yesterday with its bankers. It added: 'Construction margins continue to be squeezed and the balance sheet remains weak. The banks were owed about pounds 200m and retrieved less than half this: most egg landed on the face of NatWest, with an exposure said to be above pounds 50m. Indeed, if I were a referee (which thank the Lord I am not), I should make Joseph Stalin look like John Major.

Mobbed by television crews as he stomped through Russia's new parliament, the State Duma, this week, Mr Zhirinovsky had this mocking message for Mr Clinton: 'If your country is very weak and you want our help, we can help you, Mr Clinton.' Near by, another belligerent nationalist, the television journalist Alexander Nevzorov, babbled about Washington's dark hand: 'Many Russians understand that America was behind the tragic October events and many other unpleasant things in our life.'We will prove that interpretation is correct and that Russia is not as weak as they think.' The theme has countless variations. This fear underlies the representative tradition of the House of Commons, the Burkean insistence that MPs owe voters their judgement and conscience, not their obedience.But as we become a more assertive, stroppier people, the idea that MPs and the rest of the chattering classes are superiors to whom the rest defer becomes ever less tenable. Either the higher costs will cut into cash flow, reducing investment or prompting redundancies; or they will be passed on, reducing competitiveness - at least in international activities. There are 600 of them, dispensing righteous indignation across the country. All I can do is ask the people who still have food to share a little.'The constant sniper fire and shelling from the surrounding Serbian-controlled hills have forced him to remain at the church for three months 'I went out exactly three times,' he said.

Detectives were questioning two 16-year-old girls after the body of a 70-year-old woman was found at her home in Danyrheol, Mid Glamorgan.. JUERG HEER, until recently a senior manager of NM Rothschild's Swiss private banking arm, has been arrested for banking irregularities, according to the Zurich prosecutor, Marco Ruggli. For a few seconds, a dozen years slip away, and we're all back behind school desks, flicking inky pellets Sadly, Michael Caine couldn't make it.(Photographs omitted). A building firm is lending its apprentices to carry out plastering and joinery work.Parents have been asked for help in kind or in labour, not cash. 'But we will also say, naturally, that we are not going to wait indefinitely.'Mr Major visits Paris tomorrow to discuss Maastricht with President Francois Mitterrand. We will be totally focused as a team towards winning two points.'The Russian champions are looking for an encouraging finale to a disappointing campaign, and declared themselves delighted at the absence of Hateley.