Rick Stein is a self-taught cook who has redefined British fish cookery. But although he grudgingly agreed to the referendum last October under pressure from Western aid donors, he has opposed the multi-party system so strongly in his recent speeches that if the vote goes against him today, he will find it hard to remain in power.
Malawi has been in the grip of an almost tangible excitement in the past few days President Banda ruled absolutely and was proud of it ‘Everything in Malawi is my business,’ he once said. According to officials here, the fact that the session is taking place indicates broad backing from both Britain and France. A WAR veteran was asphyxiated in his house after children blocked his chimney pot with a piece of wood in a ‘prank that went wrong’, an inquest was told yesterday. Two sweetly timed leg glances and some thumping drives left a memorable impression.Lamb did his best to entice Essex by bowling three spinners. But Warwickshire and Sussex spoilt the plot in the semi-finals and, with the Ashes series holding the attention to its last day, next Saturday’s NatWest Trophy final has crept quietly upon us.

His scheme will be nine storeys lower than the existing building, rather more elegant, will offer some sheltered public space to an area made inhospitable by traffic, and will open up new views to the Monument and St Paul’s Cathedral. The woman whose name was the last word the poet T S Eliot spoke, who made his last years young and happy: Valerie Eliot, his second wife Mrs Eliot is now 66, but she is still at her husband’s work. It can fly in only a light wind – in fact, Tony Gilbey thought a strong wind might break the spars, though they could easily be replaced from a DIY store.***WORLD’S APARTPOCKET ROCKITERip-Stop nylon, no frame,one-string, pounds 12.99, for age 6+The big plus point about this kite is that you can just stuff it in your pocket if you’re going out for the day, in case the chance comes up to fly it. A more reliable alternative for people who have Teletext is to consult BBC 2 Ceefax, page 564 onwards.Three destinations popular with British travellers are at present subject to terrorist threats against tourists: Egypt, Sri Lanka and Turkey.EGYPTLast year, 250,000 British people visited Egypt, with few encountering anything nastier than an upset stomach. 502 Proxy Error

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Run For Free, the Welsh National winner, set out to burn off a quality field just as he had done at Chepstow, but while Tipping Tim and the declining Twin Oaks were going backwards two out, Jodami and Mark Dwyer were lying up with minimal effort. According to a new compilation tape (Silver Minutes, in the BBC Radio Collection) he wrote in asking to appear His presumption has proved well justified. Artistically speaking, he is finished – a cultural joke, a stereotype He is the Ice Person He ‘can’t jump, can’t dance, can’t feel’. He said: ‘It’s a moot point.’Mr Taylor – who has since resigned as chairman of the pounds 500-a- year club – earlier said that the Princess had wanted to be seen. They may be a little ahead of their time for the British market.’Mickey and his pals could, I suppose, be effective for less cautious fish such as pike, which tend to grab a bait. No doubt he was among those who sneered that you were asking for it, and that your offer was not genuine but a cheap bid for publicity from a fading media star.

Even continental Europe looks better than in 1993.’Rentokil, which spent pounds 102.6m on acquisitions last year, plans more – probably security businesses in the UK or elsewhere. That does not mean paying no bank charges, but rather giving commercial banks the freedom to do what they want without the interference of a central bank. Therefore all the countries listed have found that currency weakness has persisted regardless of extremely high interest rates. John’s affectionate mother is, thankfully, unchanged; as a comrade says, that kind of love is ‘the only form of sex that really holds’. I was just starting to go out on the road and build my reputation as a solo comedian.

Cheeseman, 50, son of a Luton shopkeeper, admitted his part in an international money-laundering operation involving the Mafia and murder during a brief hearing yesterday at a US federal court in Manhattan.
He pleaded guilty to six criminal charges involving a conspiracy to sell over dollars 550m ( pounds 392m) in stolen securities, including pounds 292m of bonds stolen at knifepoint in the City of London in May 1990.In return for a promise that he would serve his sentence in a British prison, Cheeseman admitted receiving and handling stolen property.He faces up to 55 years in jail and up to dollars 1.5bn in fines. The museum’s next exhibition, ‘A Decade of Collecting’, starts on Saturday 3 April, and will have 15 drawings by Gainsborough on view, as well as prints and works by his contemporaries.For further information, contact: Gainsborough’s House, 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 6EU, telephone 0787 372958.CORRECTIONGainsborough’s House (Appeals, 20 March) is closed on Mondays, Good Friday and between Christmas and New Year; it is open throughout the rest of the year.(Photograph omitted). However, it did not disclose how grossly the ESA is exceeding its powers – certainly in the spirit, probably in the letter – under the Euratom Treaty. If the present arrangements are not in the best interests of British television they should be changed, not extended

The debate turns on two questions. After Nauru’s independence 25 years ago, phosphate exports turned its 10,000 inhabitants into the world’s richest people, measured by per capita income But the good news ended there.