The Government should help redress the balance between renting and owner-occupation, perhaps by including a notional sum for rent when assessing the income liable to tax of owner-occupiers, or by giving extra support to landlords.There is also a strong case for limiting rises in public sector rents: Oxford Economic Forecasting calculates that a 10 per cent rise in weekly rents this year would add 0.3 per cent to the retail price index, cut national output by up to 0.2 per cent a year and cost the Treasury pounds 100m – because the cost of extra Housing Benefit payments would outweigh the extra revenue from rents.The treatment of mortgage holders who get into trouble is more problematic. It is currently being enlarged, to provide more selling space and more checkout counters so that impatient Kensington housewives have less excuse to snap at the cashiers. ONLY 3 PER CENT of young people believe that sexual intercourse should be reserved for marriage, with nearly half admitting to their first experience before the age of 16, a new study has found. DEBENHAM Tewson & Chinnocks shares jumped 7p to 49p yesterday after the chartered surveyors announced that they were in merger talks with Bernard Thorpe. It has arranged more finance for its Mozambique graphic venture and is expected soon to reveal a link with Broken Hill Proprietary, Australia’s biggest company, over its minerals sands development in Mozambique.
The poverty of their finishing helps to explain why they have never scored against England, and how they came to be held goalless by little San Marino three weeks ago.Bad play is forgivable, bad behaviour on last night’s scale is not, and the report submitted by the Fifa observer should make interesting reading. The franchises bring to 425,000 the number of homes in areas covered by PNC-UK.. It was, after all, the Federal Communications Corporation that forced them ‘to invent to a deadline’, having decreed that current television standards would be replaced ‘by the best available’.And before the free-market back-slapping gets too loud, it should not be forgotten that in the early panic over Japan’s supposed onslaught, the American Electronics Association tried unsuccessfully to get dollars 1.35bn in development money from Washington.Perhaps more importantly, say HDTV sceptics on Wall Street, this new technology is still not being driven by consumer demand. Even the relatively straightforward decision to cut income taxes and spur consumer spending has been delayed because of opposition from the Ministry of Finance.Japan is not facing a Soviet- style economic collapse.
Pinkies are adept at clambering out of their baitbox home, especially at night, and exploring. You must recreate yourself or spend the rest of your life labelled a loser, a has-been, a sad ex-pop star. Or his final appearance, enthroned in the dragon chariot high over the balustraded roof, making his departure into the night sky.If this suggests a man spicing up old plays to excite the jaded public appetite, it is because I haven’t mentioned what lies behind the exotic effects Western drama delivers a present-tense narrative Noh drama recalls events that are long past. At the Cannes film festival, they saw the five-hour version and loved it. .’The applicants occupied sites at Steamer Quay, Totnes, in Devon, Old Gore Wood, Hollow Fosse, in Gloucestershire, and Blackdown, Dorchester, in Dorset.The issue was whether the local authority in each of the cases, in bringing possession proceedings, applied the right test when deciding that the applicants were not gypsies within section 16 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 and therefore were not entitled to occupy sites for their occupation.David Watkinson (Cartridges, Exeter; Bobbetts Mackan, Bristol) for the applicants; Timothy Straker (Sharpe Pritchard for council solicitors) for the South Hams District Council, Devon County Council, Gloucestershire County Council and Dorset County Council.LORD JUSTICE NEILL said that it was clear that the statutory definition of ‘gypsies’ was wider and looser than the meaning of ‘gypsies’ in its traditional sense.However the applicants’ argument that it was no longer permissible to restrict the statutory definition of gypsies to those who led a wandering life with an economic purpose could not be accepted.The following matters were relevant to a decision whether or not a particular group was composed of gypsies:1. It very rarely ventures into the wide world of sporting events, hardly ever.’With the exception of displays of American jingoism at the Olympic Games every four years, especially in Los Angeles in 1984, Mr Blum’s observation seems apposite.
One guy told me he’d only be happy when White City was razed to the ground.What’s it all about? The age of negativism. Warrant terms would also be amended.The trust is vulnerable because it is invested in out-of-favour Asian equities. And that’s about it.’After a difficult week, in which his protege and fellow sprinter Jason Livingston was sent home in disgrace, Christie in victory showed himself to be an entirely worthy captain of the British team. The film is released on video by MGM on 21 September.(Photograph omitted). He loves students but knows that animal rights people are among them and has taken precautions.Publicity material says the act is ‘RSPCA-approved’, after complaints in Australia and Germany.’Taking a live lobster and throwing it into boiling water – that’s cruel, not this,’ he tells us.
Miller is due to ride Double Bill for Sheppard in the Breeders’ Cup Chase, but Schlesinger will be in action elsewhere.Charlie Colgan, who runs the NSHA, commented: ‘The Breeders’ Cup Chase is a showcase event and helps maintain the credibility of American steeplechasing as well as giving us international recognition and acceptance.’European trainers and owners are happy to run their horses at Belmont Park, which has an excellent turf course – Francois Doumen, who trains last year’s King George VI Chase winner The Fellow, runs Sassello here tomorrow, along with Ireland’s Cock Cockburn – but are wary of most American jump tracks which often ride firm or hard.Turf maintenance is improving but still has some way to go, as does American steeplechasing, which is hoping to build on a long amateur history as it battles for more kudos in a crowded market.. Mr Emms will join M&G in three weeks as sales and marketing director.Mr Linaker said Mr Emms was expected to join M&G’s main board in the next year or so.Before his 13 years with Allied Dunbar, Mr Emms was a broker consultant with Phoenix Assurance.Mr Miller said he was surprised and disappointed at being asked to leave. The subsequent advert was for a product of British Gas – namely a coal-effect fire Yours,CLIVE STEWARDWestonzoyland, Somerset14 October. It’s short and impersonal, giving information on the dead, wounded or captured in Slovenia: 39 Federal Army soldiers, four territorial defence soldiers, four policemen, 10 civilians and 10 foreign citizens, all dead; 308 wounded and 2,539 prisoners of war.
