The humble vegetable was first rescued from oblivion by those nouvelle cuisine chefs who trimmed veg into tiny shapes, then arranged them like jewellery around meat and fish courses. What struck me was how professional and well prepared she was. These three different aspirations were met when Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia were within the same sovereign state. This would avoid any need for the public purse to front-load the package to help those (particularly the 75 per cent of EU farmers who are over 55) who may wish to leave the industry but are locked into it.

THE Securities and Investments Board, the investor watchdog, is investigating the activities of a Texan company which is wooing British investors with the promise of a 'guaranteed minimum 24 per cent annual return' on their money. Company cars encompass 13.9 per cent of Britain's 23.9 million cars, a higher percentage than for several years, but represent 52 per cent of new cars purchased in 1993, the same proportion as in 1992. While a quarter of drivers will ask for a pay increase in order to pay for the extra costs of having a company car after next month's tax changes, nearly one-third are taking no action. Nobody, player or journalist, wants to incur his wrath, that fiery intemperate rebuke which burns with malicious intolerance. 'I can save them pounds 144m straight away,' he said.(Photograph omitted). An Inuit leader described how they had to abandon their villages in 1957 under orders from a Soviet government intent on industrialising the area, leaving their homes to crumble..

The sense of magic persisting down the ages, and of human lives twining around it into new directions every generation, is very well brought off:The room at first sight is a winter room;The tablecloth a fresh snowfallorderedWith frail matzot that splinter at the touchLike too-fine ice, the wine glasses of hardSnow-crystal. Interest payments will peak at pounds 1.5m a day.According to Eurotunnel's own traffic forecast, the first it has published, revenues will total pounds 504m in 1994.However, the latest forecast from its independent consultants puts income in 1994 at only pounds 465.2m, pounds 180m less than the previous forecast.The tunnel is forecast to be carrying 44 million passengers and 26.4 million tonnes of freight by 2003, bringing in revenue of pounds 971.4m.(Photograph omitted). On a chilly September night at Elland Road, Leeds, however, the achievement of Frank Grant, an unknown middleweight, provided a reminder of those qualities which make this the purest, most compelling of all sporting endeavours.Grant was the challenger for the British title held by Herol Graham, a champion of proven quality acknowledged as one of the most stylish performers of his generation.A crafty, elusive and deceptively powerful puncher, Graham is adept at making opponents miss, then punishing them on the counter, a tactic by which he had claimed British, Commonwealth and European crowns, even though he had fallen short in two world title assaults.In contrast Grant, a 27-year-old club fighter from Bradford, had never been in a title fight, seeming to lack the experience and the talent to compete on level terms with a man of Graham's undoubted class. 'Since I turned professional in 1985 I've had a solid career I'm hitting the ball all right now I'm pleased with it, but nothing special No complaints.'. and I hate feedback,' he'd screamed, self-mockingly.The concert is concluded, as you knew it would, by a storming version of 'Rockin' in the Free World' - introduced as 'an old folk song' - on which Neil and the MGs are joined by the top support band Pearl Jam, one of the grunge outfits who've climbed to fame on the tails of Young's plaid shirts: even for a style vacuum like Neil, fashion comes full circle eventually.(Photograph omitted).