His BIL Securities has lifted its stake to 19.7 per cent by buying 432,000 shares.Gibbs Mew, which like many smaller brewers has found trading difficult, is due to roll out its year's results next week. We could swap a measly week in Portugal in January for a fortnight in the Caribbean in high summer if we wanted. Operation Restore Hope arrived too late for Araba Aden. Someone, somewhere along the line, has failed to communicate.Scyld Berry.The choppy seas put paid to an interesting battle with Geoff Capes, once the world's strongest man, and a Cornish shark. By the time of his death, in 1977, he had also enjoyed the beginnings of a revival - not in his glittering old haunts, but in the fringe productions of Stewart Trotter: followed, two years later, by the Darlows' enthusiastic and well-researched biography.The stage was set for his return, but, apart from stray sightings of The Deep Blue Sea and The Browning Version, Rattigan is still out in the cold.To most playgoers of my age and younger, what he stands for is more real than what he wrote.What does he stand for? In the 1950s the answer would have been naturalistic craftsmanship, self-interested endorsement of the social status quo, star casting, and the tyranny of the middle-class audience as embodied in Aunt Edna, the archetypal playgoer dreamed up by Rattigan in a 1953 essay, who became his most famous character. Orders in hand already exceed last year's total deliveries and first-quarter sales are 20 per cent higher.' Quarto, which creates books on subjects such as cookery and painting to be sold under others' imprints, decided during 1992 to sacrifice market share in a drive to maintain profits.Despite turning away less profitable sales, turnover was 12 per cent higher at pounds 39.4m. As a commitment to open government, and to raise standards of political hygiene to those enjoyed in the US and EC, the Prime Minister should announce now that the identity of MPs accepting such loans or gifts - together with the sums and names of donors - will be published as a matter of course.

'I have to persuade those at work to stay on a little longer.' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid (Photograph omitted). Luckily, there are hundreds: 'There's an intractable New World disorder, laced with Arms business as usual The right has its own form of PC - Patriotic Correctness. He cannot be blamed for this - but it does lead one to reflect that a flashy style is perhaps a rather short- lived virtue in a writer.Thompson claims to have invented Gonzo journalism, which he defined in the blurb for Fear and Loathing as 'a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism'. From 1980, when President Ronald Reagan was elected, it also became a critical link between the Republicans and the right-wing Likud government in Israel. Its power was bound to wane with the victory of the Democrats in the United States and Labour in Israel, but nobody expected Aipac's most prominent leaders to destroy themselves by a series of misstatements and lost political battles.

He says he was told not to by a senior official because he would be breaching his duty of confidentiality.One parent, Maureen Newman, wrote to Virginia Bottomley, Secretary of State for Health, asking for an interview. The President of India wanted to meet him, so did Gandhi's granddaughter, and the Governor of Bombay called him a national hero This must have been daunting for a man who 'hates politics' 'I had to give a huge press conference in Delhi. It does seem like rather surprising prejudice.'Jan Ash, 29, is a housing association tenant on the estate. Research suggests there are at least 125,000 heroin addicts in the UK and as many as 250,000 regular amphetamine users, the conference was told. The newspapers in a vending machine outside report on children killing children in Vietnam. Ingrams chomped through his tart and ice- cream quite contentedly; as he wasn't drinking I thought I could afford a glass of Black Muscat - actually red - at pounds 4 to go with it.We then sat chuckling away very happily for a bit, working out an idea for a new play that would make us all rich, but which I think we are probably both slightly too idle ever to write.