' 'Congratulations to our brother and leader Yasser Arafat and all his brothers on their return to our precious Palestine,' the Raghab Murtaja Company of citrus exporters and motor importers of Gaza announced. The European Seniors Tour, which began with the St Pierre Seniors Classic here, has offered him a taste of the last of the summer wine. But shortly before the trial he was interviewed by Dr Eileen Vizard. That is around 4 per cent of what we need.'Mr Trench said that the legal actions being pursued by Neil Cooper, the liquidator of BIM, now held the best hopes for non-Mirror pensioners - pounds 80m against Lehman, pounds 33m against Banque Nationale de Paris and pounds 15m against Credit Suisse.The Mirror pensioners' case was adjourned last week in order to allow the parties to negotiate a settlement. However, some buyers got better bargains than others: within this period prices rose overall for three out of the seven months.If you buy by direct mail - ordering over the telephone - the median price you can expect to pay for a PC based on a 486SX processor running at 25 megahertz with a 100-megabyte hard disk and four megabytes of ram (main memory) is about pounds 1,050 including VAT. It is generally suggested that a threshold of 5 per cent of the vote should be imposed before a party is allowed any top-up seats.

The Commission has increased the money available for infrastructure development in Europe's poorer regions and created a new European investment fund worth pounds 1.6bn to add to increased lending facilities at the European Investment Bank worth pounds 4bn.The emphasis is to be on capital investment, on better training and research and on improving the incentives and financial support for small and medium-sized companies. Matthews's patience was exhausted once he had warned Dawe, Dunn, Hall, Reed and Ryan (forwards all) and then issued a final warning. Here's Keith Fletcher:'We are not used to playing on turning wickets because we don't have them in England. The fugitives were cornered in a farmhouse at Hanging Rock, New South Wales, after a police chase across two states.

NEW YORK - A bank account held by two men arrested in the World Trade Center bombing received funds from overseas shortly before the blast, sources close to those investigating the case said yesterday. Officials at the Department of Trade and Industry and the Health and Safety Executive, which issues licences for the import of explosives, provided the necessary paperwork.Lord Younger of Prestwick, Secretary of State for Defence between 1986 and 1989, said last week that he had no personal knowledge of the project. The relief workers remained in the nearby town of Ngara, some 30 miles (50km) from the camp.. My father, normally a mild-mannered and gentle man, leapt out of the car gesticulating wildly - speechless with rage.

Peter Holmes a Court, son of late Robert, has just joined Billy Boesky, son of Ivan, to put on a play off-Broadway entitled Fallen Angel - no, not about Peter's dad, but rock 'n roll.But surely the best of all lives has been led by one Tim Jefferies, ex-hubbie of Koo Stark, and the rumoured husband-to-be of model Elle 'the body' MacPherson. ***1992 Chateau de Violet, Cuvee Clovis, Minervois ( pounds 4.79 Wine Rack and Bottoms Up) is also very perfumed, soft and easy drinking, with flavours of strawberry, orange and flowers. Scallops were followed by fish and wild mushroom stew, washed down by what the menu called 'a young 1989 Claret.' Lunch was rounded off with English and French cheeses and cake.The idea was based on the dinner given by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc, on the 10 November 1827 in the tunnel they were building under the Thames - an occasion recalled by an actor dressed as the young Brunel.The precedent was an unfortunate one: the Thames project was suspended through lack of money soon after the meal and not completed for another 16 years. There are still a lot of tourists around, (who) enable Oxford Street to buck the trend.'Both stores say their best departments are perfume and cosmetics, along with handbags and scarves.A John Lewis spokesman said the week ending 11 December brought a record turnover of almost pounds 47m: 'Central London once again provided the principal momentum as John Lewis and Peter Jones both secured double-figure increases.'(Photograph omitted).

MacNeil says, without being over-emphatic about it, that he doesn't think the relationship has a significant effect on the way they work together, except that it gives them more time to talk things through. The expression that he has given himself (and whether this was involuntary or not, the Self-Portrait is by some way the most expressive painting Mengs ever painted) is the giveaway. The high risks are the tragic consequence of leaving intervention so late and allowing perceptions of Western weakness to take hold. Silja's Kostelnicka is a searing and uncompromising portrait. Final: Woodbridge and Woodforde bt Broad and Muller 6-7 6-3 6-4.(Photograph omitted).