THE GOVERNMENT is allowing the water industry to renege on commitments to clean hundreds of miles of inland rivers polluted with raw sewage, writes Nicholas Schoon. He was a stalwart figure, as chairman of the BBC West Regional Advisory Council, and later on the BBC's National Council in London. Instead, those papers that had pilloried the Labour Party were forced to witness Labour prophecy after Labour prophecy come true. 'But it has got much better now,' she maintains.Yang-Kit So says she has been invited to an umami seminar, but remains sceptical about the taste claims. In particular, Mr Devine was granted legal aid only at the last minute.This situation should not be allowed to arise again.'It was confirmed last night that the convicted killer Jimmy Boyle, who developed his talents as an artist and sculptor in Barlinnie prison's special unit, helped to pay Mr Devine's initial legal costs in bringing his case.Commenting on the outcome last night, Mr Boyle said: 'As far as I am concerned, the main principle of the case was established. 'Because we do a lot of work social services should be doing and it's cheaper and easier for them to send Asian women clients to us rather than using six social workers.'The predominance of Asian people in Southall suggests to the stranger that here is a 'community', an exclusive entity closed in on itself to protect its culture and morality.

'Yes, a beautiful image of innocence.' 'Good boy,' her eyes said.And the one in which Madonna holds a bottle of suntan oil between her legs and squeezes its contents on to Naomi Campbell's bare abdomen? 'Humour.' Correct again. He said: 'I am not going to say that I told you so, but all I ask is that you listen to what I have to say for tomorrow and not for what I said yesterday.'Grimethorpe Colliery Band, which won the national brass band championships at the weekend, is being prevented by British Coal from taking part in tomorrow's rally in London in support of the miners, and another rally planned for Sunday. He has demanded a shareholders' meeting at which he will propose board changes.Haemocell, which has won US approval for its blood filtration machine, jumped 26p to 210p as stories circulated that Stryker, a US group involved in the distribution of Haemocell's invention, was planning to mount a takeover bid. Yesterday's action from Filbert Street had all the necessary ingredients, except a goal.In the circumstances, Wolves will feel happy to have preserved their unbeaten record, although less pleased to have had four names entered in referee Roger Milford's book.Leicester City, on the other hand, may regret missing the chance to avenge the defeat they suffered at Molineux last month. 'I'm not predicting it, but it's possible a strike could go into 1996,' he said.With 265 players earning dollars 1m ( pounds 670,000) or more this year, owners have proposed salary limits and equal revenue sharing.The players plan to submit a proposal - stressing their rights to seek more money from rival clubs and seeking an increase in the minimum dollars 109,000 salary - to owners on Thursday.'Until we hear the union's view, we have nothing to negotiate,' Richard Ravitch, the owners' lawyer, said. For example in the 1820s, after the Napoleonic wars, the number of ships of the line was reduced from 98 to 23.'By contrast, Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Social Security, was urged by his backbenchers to take a tough line on taxpayer support for 'young girls who have babies in order to get flats and houses', as Harry Greenway, MP for Ealing North, described them at Question Time.'When the welfare system encourages young women to have babies out of wedlock so that they can get a council house and get benefit, then that system has gone too far,' added Graham Riddick, Conservative MP for Colne Valley.But Donald Dewar, Labour's social security spokesman, said people were worried about the treatment of lone parents in future budgets following ministerial speeches at the weekend.

She was inclined, at the time, to favour doctrinal answers to problems. IN ORDER to preserve your enviable reputation for accuracy, may I correct the caption to the picture showing a vehicle in a bomb crate during the blitz on London It is a bus of the type known as ST, not a tram I used them frequently at the time A J Pike, Hemel Hempstead. Beverly Grzybkowski, 36, of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, stabbed her husband Andrew, also 36, as he threatened their son with a club. It was less dangerous than she had feared, because the propeller at once became inextricably entangled in the weeds of Hampshire.What she really wanted was to read the news. The principal competitions are the National Club Championships (sponsored by Leigh Interests) and the County Championship (not sponsored by anyone at all). Police are investigating a gas explosion which killed a middle-aged man in the kitchen of his 700-year-old cottage in Chalford, Gloucestershire.. It might be said that he began as an imitator, heavily under the influence of Yeatsian and Audenesque rhetoric, but what he became was unmistakably himself.In 1965 Dickinson published his autobiography, The Good Minute, proudly subtitling it 'Autobiography of a Poet-Golfer' as witness to an abiding passion.

A chill wind from the Anglo-Saxon lands to the west is already picking up strength, set to blast severe changes through the cosy, inward-looking environment in which German corporations have traditionally peddled information and worked the markets.For one of the world's foremost economic powers, with numerous globally active corporations and ambitions to be a leading international financial centre, this change is desperately overdue.Throughout the first half of last year Mr Piech confidently said that VW would return a group profit in 1993, regardless of horrendous losses in a collapsed car market and the absence of any signs of real recovery.Then, well into the summer, this profit was suddenly transformed into a loss of more than DM1bn ( pounds 397m). The fish will not have been out of the sea for long - the fishmongers can reach any of the landing places within 20 minutes.Pasta, of many varieties and in large quantities, is always on offer Rabbit is a speciality. that this team are terminally hopeless, urgently require a new captain, and I therefore turn in my badge.'However, glory be. The area already has several large power stations, and there are proposals for two huge municipal garbage incinerators and another gas- fired power station.

They paid that to Aston Villa for 35-year-old Gordon Cowans last February, the figure representing less than 1 per cent of the total drawn on Lionel Pickering's bank account since he released the club from the late Robert Maxwell's grip A trifling amount. Although police discovered paedophile material at his home, there was no other evidence against him.Yesterday police rejected criticisms that Black should have been caught earlier. Along the banks of the Miljacka river, the National Library, pulverised by incendiary shells, stands in ruins just yards from a row of sturdy offices and apartment blocks. Only one Briton has ever jumped higher - Steve Smith, who chose not to compete here.'Championships like this always bring out the best in me,' Grant said. Other British operators include Rank Organisation, which has 27 outlets, and Stakis, with 22.. Membership negotiations with central and eastern Europe would open up a huge range of questions about every aspect of the EU's existence.