LISBON (Reuter) – Portugal said yesterday it would replace Antonio Cardoso e Cunha as its European Commissioner when his mandate expires at the end of this year. One older MP described it as the nearest thing he had encountered to a wartime officers’ mess.Women MPs are not so impressed, most regarding it as the parliamentary equivalent of the rugby club changing room. ‘It sounds like Sixties stuff but I think the premonition of war with which the production ends is chilling because we are so close to the edge.’ As Romania borders war-torn Yugoslavia, he has a point.Opens tomorrow night at the Oxford Playhouse See below for details.(Photograph omitted). Today the same houses change hands for pounds 60,000 to pounds 65,000. Paul Haigh, the Racing Post’s award-winning columnist, is a frequent contributor, while Nick Mordin offers more general advice on better betting.Mordin is a natural, wrapping up advice in a bouncy, witty delivery. The first few days were a spectacular success, with the French welcomed by both the Hutu and Tutsi tribes.Now, however, as the Tutsi rebels are gaining, the French troops have been ordered not to give ground. She refused to comment, but Mr Ostrin said she intended to resume part-time practice.’She feels great relief.

The great glazed roof brings daylight into the core of the building. Yet our away record is as good as anyone’s’His chairman looked shattered. Before 1939 he had mixed schoolmastering at Dulwich with cricket for Sussex, but after the war he turned his attentions fully to cricket, first at Sussex, as captain (in 1946), secretary and player, and then at Lord’s. The new-style GCSE will test a much narrower range of skills and knowledge. JOHN MAJOR faced uproar in the Commons yesterday when he said the threat to jobs posed by the Leyland DAF crisis was ‘a matter for the receivers’. His backers see him as a safe pair of hands with Maastricht high on the political agenda.Mr Smith said his Shadow Cabinet was more than a match for the Government.The quality of the five women elected had been given ‘proper recognition’ in the posts allocated.Donald Dewar, for nine years Labour’s spokesman on Scotland and a wily politician with a lawyer’s grasp of detail, moves to social security – a post with heightened significance given Mr Smith’s desire for a ’second Beveridge’ through his planned Commission on Social Justice. According to Mr Cummings: ‘The pink pound has never been more fiercely chased.

Their proposals require agents to provide receipts for tickets sold. But Washington has long-term interests in Europe which have not been diminished by the disintegration of the Soviet empire. Mr Key is expected to recognise that cycling is an efficient and economical form of transport, a clear departure from previous policy which was to deter cycling because of the higher accident rate per mile. Three ‘enlightened’ Premiership chairmen would have the specific task of creating an environment in which the England team would have the best chance of winning in 1996.I, and many others, talk glibly of reducing the size of the Premiership and moving cup competitions without really understanding the financial consequences. The administration of other sports is something best dealt with by experts in those fields.’We would not wish participants in those sports to believe that players in rugby are critical of them. It is an outbreak of civil war within the Establishment.That is why it is so revealing.

They were just not prepared for working in a demand-led system where there is competition. THE 100 most senior executives of the Nationwide Building Society are each about to collect thousands of pounds in bonuses because a fall in customer complaints has triggered an unusual new incentive scheme. The Magimix made pounds 634.A painting by the Israeli artist Reuven Rubin sold for pounds 60,900 to a private buyer (estimate pounds 15,000- pounds 25,000) However, not everyone was quite so enamoured with the sale. As well as being available as singles, the grain whisky and the four malts also go into Mackinlay and other blends.The Invergordon Single Grain is probably too off-beat an idea to become a major brand, and that is not the intention But it deserves points for enterprise. The ballet, which is touring the country, is set to an electronic score and uses the five-feet-wide, water-filled lenses, each weighing more than 350kgs, to magnify and sometimes invert the dance. Transported back in time to the Copacabana night-club, his alter ego falls madly in love with a new performer there, an innocent from Oklahoma called Lola (excellent Nicola Dawn). THE piano nobile at Prior Park in Avon was once one of the finest sets of rooms in one of England’s most splendid mansions Now it is a mass of scaffolding.

But these entirely miss the serious weirdness of Lear’s work. A reading list must constrain and that is foolish.’Teachers have already secured important changes to the English curriculum, including the abandonment of proposals to make children speak grammatically correct standard English even in the playground.English teachers also complained that the original version put too much emphasis on the mechanics of grammar and punctuation.The draft of the new proposals accepts that all children need to be able to speak, write and read standard English but adds that ‘a richness of dialects and languages in England and Wales can contribute to pupils knowledge and understanding of language’.The aim should be ‘to equip young people with the ability to use standard English where circumstances require it’.Teachers have also secured a higher profile for media studies, with a recognition that children should study newspaper articles and television programmes in English lessons.(Photograph omitted). A single misstep and the Republicans would have been branded the party of the very ‘gridlock’ government that Mr Clinton was sent here to end. One idea is to use a programme devised by the deputy head, Miralee Hackshaw. But I know I wouldn’t have tried to stop them.Tim Lynch, who left the Army in 1985, is now a counsellor for ex-servicemen and their families.. In recent years publicity over how much investors lost if they did not stay the course has shamed insurers into giving them a better deal.
According to the third annual survey of with-profits policies, conducted for Money Marketing by the actuaries Clay and Partners, pay-outs by several companies have sharply improved.