Golf course architects may take into account the position of the sun in designing the layout, and exceptionally this may cause problems. Sir: It is no surprise that the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, has come out in favour of an age of consent of 18 for gay sex (report, 25 January). PAUL NEWLOVE has put his international future in jeopardy by resisting all attempts to persuade him to travel with Great Britain for next month’s World Sevens in Sydney, writes Dave Hadfield. This is because landing is a far noisier business than taking off And both must be done into the wind. Instead he had been out-paddled by the winner, Bulgaria’s Nikolai Boukhalov, and a flotilla of opponents.It had gone wrong right from the beginning. He then attempted to get through a gap a yard wide but clattered into a tree and his ball disappeared into a bush. Twice Tim Sherwood backed up his front men to fire in shots, and twice he was disappointed.United caught everyone unawares with an incisive move from the restart.

Mrs Justice Booth refused the husband leave to appeal out of time against a consent order for ancillary relief made in divorce proceedings.
The parties divorced after a marriage of six years. When he hears that this performance was to illustrate the story of an eviction, one hide-bound official completely misses the point, and sniffs that, in his experience, all the peasants they’ve evicted have gone very quietly. In the same way, the rather unrepresentative old fellows who lead organisations of veterans grow even more warlike as their following begins to thin out The mess over inviting the Germans is mostly their fault. THE HIGH COURT has thrown out the claim by Stuart Lipton of Stanhope Securities that he had a pre-emptive right to the 29.9 per cent holding in Stanhope bought earlier this year by John Ritblat’s British Land Group from the Bank of Nova Scotia. The Docklands move is a key test of Mr Waldegrave’s authority as well as of the credibility of these rules.’There’s a nasty whiff around the Docklands-Department of the Environment move, made all the more pungent by this secrecy.

At 31, he was managing director of a public electronics company. There has been a positive response to the Department of Transport’s request for private sector views on participation in a joint venture to fund the new railway. Foster and Kestelman both have a habit of stooping slightly, bowing their heads like John Le Mesurier in Dad’s Army, as if tired of looking the world in the face. He smiles vacantly when his wife comes in, then knocks her to the ground when she tries to get him back to bed. But its change to a remand centre had been carried out without additional finance, which meant significant improvement was impossible.The judge, however, praised the prison’s rapid return to normality after the disturbances – over which 23 inmates face charges of prison mutiny – the quality of the staff and staff-prisoner relationships.Judge Tumim was also highly critical of the way in which young offenders were packed together in Lincoln prison.