But Captain Ernesto Cuervo pointed out a hole made in the surface of the armour by a half-inch calibre armour-piercing round. Since the toe-sucking pictures flashed around the world, we don’t seem to be able to get away from feet as a new erogenous zone. Its advocates say that proper training is needed for it to be used effectively as a weapon of self-defence and that in the Los Angeles case the officers had not been trained correctly.On 5 July, the Metropolitan Police will begin trials of three straight batons that have already been scientifically evaluated. Sometimes I break out the glitter and glue, which ends up all over the carpet. Sir: With reference to your article ‘Last post for the Proms queue jumpers’ (9 February), I expect Karen Booth and the other people responsible for the management of the Albert Hall are too young to remember that before the war theatre-goers could pay 6d for a stool in the queue for pit and gallery. Even more surprising, he is not even mentioned in the Gran Enciclopedia Catalana published by the Generalitat de Catalunya in Barcelona in 1970 – but that was while Franco was still in power. As the Countess’s daughter, Zoe Wanamaker – one moment mooky and irritable, the next beautiful and dignified – had more to work with and worked with it well; but it was Hiller who prevented the film from floating away on a tide of plangent cello music.

SERBIAN and Croatian warlords will meet face-to-face on board a British warship off Dubrovnik today to negotiate the disengagement and withdrawal of their forces in the area, the British government said yesterday. It brews blue-green algae in water contaminated by fertilisers, sewage and detergents. It was the middle of winter and all those groups we wanted to see were actually shit anyway. But if Aristophanes had performed light opera in an Athenian Covent Garden, no doubt it would have represented perfection indeed..

Chartered accountants Helley Stock Hutter and the legal firm Rooks Rider are jointly organising a seminar on financial advice for women. In his mid-seventies he would say, ‘You can watch me, but dinna talk to me.’ Even in his late seventies, after 60 years experience, he knew that intense concentration on the work in hand was a secret of successful plasterwork restoration.For 57 years, Begg enjoyed a deeply happy marriage with Helen Clydesdale. Steve Ellis, in his excellent new version of Inferno, confesses that he has ignored Dante’s tortuous scheme, noting that in his own verse he has always found rhyme difficult (an admission which will no doubt elicit sighs of relief from all those who, like Robert Lowell, prefer live poetry to ’stuffed birds’). Spouses of marriages that took place before retirement are eligible for half the pension benefits.One aim of schemes set up in this way was to prevent ‘death-bed’ marriages where the arrangement was to exploit the widow’s pension.Lady Pickard married her husband in 1983, nine years after he retired. Simon was transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, where he underwent brain surgery Denise was told his chances of survival were remote. Western agencies suspected that they would be used to make chemical weapons. But today he made lots of mistakes and I played great,’ said Alami, who now faces Paul Haarhuis, of the Netherlands, in the second round.Sampras was in good company as Michael Stich, the world No 2 from Germany, followed him out of the event – beaten 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round by another unseeded player, the Haitian Ronald Agenor.Thomas Muster, the No 1 seed at the Australian hard-court championships in Adelaide, was beaten 7-6, 4-6, 6-4 in yesterday’s second round by the South African Grant Stafford, who is ranked No 86 in the world..