Fisons, beset by questions over its selling methods, continued to find new lows, down 4.5p at 138.5p.Lucas Industries was hit by a bout of profit-taking, off 2.5p at 176.5p. Instead of a paved piazza dominated by the Baroque facade of a church closed for restoration, this ramshackle hamlet is centred on what looks like a giant village pond surrounded by ancient stone walls.This steams with sulphurous water, the smell of rotten eggs insinuating its way into the rooms of the overlooking Hotel Terme where Tarkovsky stayed during the filming.The pool is, in fact, the thermal bath made famous by St Catherine of Siena and after whom it is named. Crichton himself warned of Japan's 'adversarial trade, trade like war, trade intended to wipe out competition' and encouraged readers to verify the inflammatory claims of his Detective John Connor (Sean Connery in the film) by consulting recent works by some of America's best known Japan-bashers.Among those recommended by Crichton were Pat Choate - the author of a paranoid fantasy about lobbyists working to give Japan 'effective political domination over the US' - and Clyde Prestowitz, the Reagan-era trade negotiator who believes that Japanese business is diminishing America's power and quality of life.But in a review at the time Robert Reich, now President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor, found no fewer than 35 works of supposed non-fiction with similarly bellicose titles. Melzer failed to build from that point, however, with Federer breaking straight back to seize the initiative. Mr Matthews, though born in Liverpool, has been banished to Northern Ireland on evidence that was kept secret from him and was judged inadmissible in court. Fennell, fisheries officer of the board in those balmy days when Cliff Richard was still topping the pop charts with the Shadows, innocently put 97 finger-length zander into the Great Ouse Relief Channel in Cambridgeshire.He said at the time: 'The Relief Channel is a still water from which the fish cannot escape.' They are now in all fenland drains and rivers, as well as in waters of neighbouring counties, plus Kent, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Staffordshire and Yorkshire.Warned by fishermen, who were catching 4lb zander just two years later, Fennell dubbed anglers 'biologically naive' and said it was fantasy to suggest that the zander were spreading throughout the Great Ouse system. King Rat is firmly fixed in the grim folklore of Tyrone and Armagh as the relentless, merciless embodiment of the loyalist death squads.

Nick Scheele, 48, became chairman of Jaguar in April after having spent 28 years with its parent company, Ford, culminating in the post of president at Ford of Mexico.It is his responsibility to turn Jaguar around from heavy losses and confound the received wisdom that when Ford paid pounds 1.6bn for the company three years ago it bought an expensive pig in a poke.The man trying to revive the fortunes of Rolls-Royce is Peter Ward, its chairman and chief executive. According to Philip John, from the University of Reading, German scientists have already made 'sweet potatoes' by altering the DNA of the plant so that the potato contains sugar instead of starch. The Conservatives would settle for that, as they prefer to fight one opponent they reckon they can beat on one battlefront. A JFK-style montage of paintings, photographs, documents and prints, the exhibition pulls a particularly grisly skeleton out of the French colonial cupboard.

SCIENTISTS at Lancaster University are claiming a definitive link between poor health and exposure to traffic fumes after a study of 1,000 households in northern England and Scotland, writes Liz Hunt. 'Well, we've found our Piaf]' Gems recalls remarking, a little prematurely. Twenty-one years later, Paige is at last under Piaf's skin, and the fit is good. Members can get rid of their chief executives, who don't have adequate authority to deliver.'He favours either the American city mayor system or the New Zealand reformed one, where the entire administration is accountable to the chief, who has powers to hire and fire. Pre-tax profits were up 28 per cent to a record pounds 17.7m on sales of pounds 54m. Many of the modern interiors in the city centre are also worthy of note, such as the YHA in Prince Street and the centre for architecture which is being developed in an old sail-maker's building on the waterfront.The style and scale of Bristol's architectural skyline is of infinite variety and the city is succeeding in coming to terms with the treacherous environment of modern architecture but, like any other city, it needs to be vigilant in order to avoid the horrific mistakes of the 20th century.Peter Ware is an architect based in Dowry Square, Hotwells, Bristol(Photograph omitted). Replacements: O Campan for Sella, 58; L Seigne for Armary, 56.ROMANIA: G Solomie; A Mitocaru, M Nedelcu, N Fulina, M Dumitru; F Ion, M Foca; G Vlad, G Ion, G Leonte, C Cojocariu, H Dumitras (capt), T Brinzi, I Selceanu, G Dinu. I tended to lie exhausted on my bed and beat off people who rang up, saying, 'How did you find out I was here?' Everyone flitted around in negliges and the men wore rather manly terry-towelling robes and this led to a curiously frivolous atmosphere.

SHAPED like a giant scorpion with its claws outstretched, Yamdrok Tso is one of Tibet's largest freshwater lakes to the north of the Himalayan divide, twisting around mountain ranges high above the valley that leads to the capital, Lhasa. While the relatives of the 95 who died in the terrible crush have been able to bury and mourn their loved ones, Allan and Barbara Bland have spent a long, painful vigil at their son's bedside.His limbs contorted, his eyes open with only their reflex causing movement, he has been kept alive by a tube passing down his nose and throat and into his stomach. The conclusion of most politicians and academics who have written on the subject is that withdrawal under present circumstances could - some say would - lead to unprecedented violence.The fear is that with no single group strong enough to provide a central authority, Northern Ireland would be plunged into disorder on the scale of the former Yugoslavia. Although the decision requires ratification by the Hockey Association Council it seems unlikely that there will be a change of heart.