Excluding volatile prices for food, drink, tobacco and petrol, factory gate inflation was unchanged at 2.5 per cent in the year to March.
On that basis, prices rose at an annual rate of 0.8 per cent in the latest three months over the previous three-month period – the lowest figure since 1973.Yesterday’s producer price figures contained less bullish news on industry’s raw material costs. Evasiveness, procrastination and now three celebrated and utterly improper meetings between White House staff and Treasury officials on what is a private problem of the Clintons – all have created the impression there is something to hide.
Worse, the audience has changed. Sloothaak won the first of these, in Berlin last month, on the eight- year-old grey mare, San Patrignano Dorina, who will be one of his three mounts for the London show. Rats, frogs and snakes, as well as gods, are among the subjects that delighted Japanese ivory carvers. It was set up in Herb Alpert’s garage in Los Angeles and was launched on the world with the release of ‘Lonely Bull’ from Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass. Arriving at workable tests takes two or three years of practical experience, adapting the tests each year until they are clearly achieving what is required of them. Best final total: 271 J Nicklaus 1965 (67, 71, 64, 69); R Floyd 1976 (65, 66, 70, 70) Lowest final round to win: 64 Gary Player 1978 Biggest winning margin: 9 shots J Nicklaus 1965 Longest putt: 100ft N Faldo (2nd hole for birdie) in 1989.

He is the fifth minister to step down.The concern was prompted by a bizarre succession of events set off by Francesco Cossiga, the previous president, whose violent outbursts against things he disapproved of made him highly controversial. There is no statutory obligation to provide leisure services, so pools become ready targets for cuts. I would find myself looking with an impertinent closeness at someone’s face, and I would hear myself demanding in brusque and hectoring tones: ‘Did you shave this morning, Smith?’, or I would observe to the sergeant with me: ‘This man’s cap-badge is filthy, sergeant.’ The sergeant would bellow: ‘Sir]’ and I would know that man would get hell later on.And all the time I was ashamed of myself, because I knew the proceedings were idiotic and I was behaving like a shit.The HQ mess was staffed entirely by senior officers. The strength of RAF squadrons, home ports of Royal Navy ships and even the budget of the Chief of Defence Intelligence – pounds 98.5m – are no longer secret. Malcolm, who often passed for white, was on the streets from his early teens. Musically informed already, he had wanted always to conduct, took lessons seriously and developed his musicianship to become another career.

Ajax’s De Meer stadium had been daubed with racist graffiti and swastikas on Saturday night The club have strong Jewish ties. Those who died in the courtroom at Euskirchen, west of Bonn, included the man himself, his former girlfriend and the judge. South responded Two Hearts but, after North’s return to Three No-trumps, was able to switch to Four Spades, confident that a fit had been found.West led the three of clubs and the declarer (Kee Tammens of the Netherlands) won the king. Both events showed Spanish composers looking for a pan-European language that wouldn’t sacrifice the allure of Spain’s past, but there the likeness ended. I waited and listened to see what would happen when they found out that I was missing.’As soon as Mother Wei opened the door a crack, the militiamen forced their way inside. MAURICE FIELD, the Malone centre, is a surprise choice to face England in the Five Nations match at Twickenham on 19 February. Even the commercial breaks last night were dominated by a Reebok advertisement featuring Kerrigan.

Mackay listens, reasons, showing neither asperity nor a tendency to let discussion drown in the depths of his sagacity Hailsham resented judges who sounded off to the media. The council would not comment last night.Leading article, page 17. It offered him the security of an analyst’s couch, which he used to embark on one of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic enterprises in modern art.(Photograph omitted). But you can understand why he rides those type of races, and that day proved what a good horse The Fellow is.’These though are not even tactics devised by Kondrat They come from the trainer.