JOHN SMITH, the Labour Party leader, called for an immediate cut in interest rates to salvage a recovery that, he said, has already run out of steam. The Nigel Kennedy phenomenon (taken purely as a piece of pop culture) was what prompted the writing of this book, and it is to this astonishing change in Vivaldi's popular image that Robbins Landon constantly returns, not only trying to explain the effects of the music in terms a layman can follow, but looking at the rest of the work, especially the sacred music. 'Gary was buzzing to play and after the game he was on a high and told me he'd like to get back for Scotland,' Laidlaw said. JOHN SMITH, 1938-1994 Leader of the Opposition, 1992-1994 Educated Glasgow University Advocate, Scottish Bar, 1967.

Ronnie Hempel, chief executive, said that volume growth had accelerated from 2 per cent in the first quarter to 9 per cent in the second, but this rate of improvement might not continue. Sir Denys Henderson, chairman, hailed the first tangible evidence that ICI's customers were pulling out of recession but warned that feedstock prices were rising and the market place remained intensely competitive.ICI shares rose 4p to 837p The interim dividend was unchanged at 10.5p. The Bengals eschewed Boomer Esiason's arm and ran at an average of 4.5 yards a carry against the traditionally stingy Raiders.Finally, no victory was more welcome than that at Anaheim, where the Los Angeles Rams beat New England 14-0. The NRA has identified 40 severe cases, including the Darent in Kent which survives largely through water company boreholes.If the rivers are to be restored, the water companies will have to pipe in water from other sources or develop new ones. The airline's solicitors, Harbottle and Lewis, have a signed statement from a former BA employee, Sadig Khalifa, detailing how BA managers instructed him and a team of colleagues to tap into Virgin's computer files.Information allegedly gained by the Helpline staff included home telephone numbers of first class passengers - many directors of major companies - and vital information on bookings, departure times and the sex of passengers.Frances Butler-Sloss, a lawyer acting for Virgin, said the airline stored such confidential information on BA's computer system, which they rented, 24 hours before a flight departure in case of breakdown in their own, more antiquated, system.BA used the Virgin flight details to cold-call customers at home in an attempt to lure them onto BA flights and may have altered its commercial policies as a result, she added.At least five of Virgin's first-class passengers who had been subjected to home cold-calling have said they are willing, if necessary, to co-operate with the company in a complaint to the Data Protection Registrar.Ms Butler-Sloss says BA's activities breached the Data Protection Act 1984 in several ways. The collapse in the German car market, which is expected to decline by 15 per cent this year, is as dramatic as its growth over a year ago was spectacular.The global recession has hit German steel makers with a vengeance. Mr Fowler is using computer simulations to help him make as much use as possible of this, the biggest country house jigsaw puzzle ever.Meanwhile, Sussex craftsmen have been remaking such items as brick chimney pots as their great- grandfathers might have; Mick Pinner, a potter, has hand-thrown 43 earthenware chimney pots, enscribing them with graffiti as his predecessors would have done: 'Margaret Thatcher resigned as I was making this', one reads.Only David Martin, the local MP has kept alive something of the spirit of Mrs Beste-Chetwynde: 'Demolish it', he barked at the time of the fire. He went along with us on all the points that we made.'The judgment also said that, as the Secretary of State had suggested in evidence, the unit should be re-established in the London area, but a court order would not help in that.Jonathan Street, for North West Thames, said the authority was still in negotiations with Great Ormond Street and Hammersmith and Fulham hospitals in the hope that the unit could be reopened.Alan Meyer, the family's solicitor, said that the judgment was significant for the future of health-care provision as authorities would have to be more cautious when cutting services.Law report, page 31(Photograph omitted).

One has tried for each of the last three years to take the pounds 120,000 five-furlong dash and now a Canadian-trained speedster, Bold N' Flashy, is set to take on Europe's best. One of his executors, Redmond O'Hanlon, a writer whose vision of reality is as exotic as Chatwin's, announced the existence of a secret diary written in code and deposited - of course - with the antiquarian bookseller Bertram Rota. Ryan Kummu returned for Fife from injury and scored two goals in the 11-6 win over Teesside Bombers which rarely saw the host side stretched as they entered the final period 9-5 up. Not everyone can take to two wheels, of course, so any serious traffic-calming initiative has to include improved public transport - hardly a priority in the UK at present.

Substitutes not used: Robson, Sealey (gk).Oldham Athletic: (4-4-2): Hallworth; Makin, Jobson, Redmond, Pointon; Milligan, Fleming, Brennan, Holden; McCarthy, Sharp. Sterling was also helped by lower market interest rates in Germany.Shares also extended their recovery from Monday's steep fall amid hopes that the Chancellor might cut interest rates again. Insurance syndicates under the management of Feltrim had been hit by insurance claims arising from the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea and other disasters.But because the Feltrim agency did not realise that its programme of swapping risks between its own syndicates and other syndicates at Lloyd's would respond in the way that it did in the event of major catastrophes, the losses were much larger than expected. But, it said, extensive and continuing monitoring of the reasons behind the fall in cases coming to court had 'yet to produce a conclusive explanation' for the trend.The decline in prison overcrowding was welcome, the Home Office spokesman added He offered two explanations.