It cannot flourish if the ground is disturbed by crop rotation or invaded by bracken which cuts out the sun.'We have released 150 crickets which were at the nymph stage beside the cricket ground where they used to breed. We are very fast through those sweeping corners and are able to attack them. John Patten, Secretary of State for Education, has written to all chief education officers warning that they face sanctions if they publish information which is not fair, balanced and objective. Christ Church Middle School in Staffordshire first held an opting out ballot two years ago but its parents decided to stay with the local authority. Robert Bischof, chairman of Jungheinrich GB, said this was because the company was not used to takeovers and 'things don't move very fast in Germany.' The bid came after talks between Jungheinrich and Steinbock's banks, bypassing Sir Neville and his brother Trevor Bowman-Shaw.It was also, however, a week after the creditor banks had been presented with two other offers, from a management buy-in team backed by Charterhouse, and from the Danish shipping and energy giant AP Moeller. What was happening?Archie Gemmill, Graham Kelly and some others came on to the pitch, approaching the Kop, mouthing soundless words and making calm-down gestures. The Paris Studios of the great Maryinsky ballerinas - Preobrajenska, Kschessinska, Lubov Egorova, Vera Trefilova - who had settled down in the French capital to teach after the Russian Revolution, contained a group of child prodigies.

But it was essential, if for nothing else than christenings, weddings and funerals, to possess a pair of trousers and a jacket that matched each other.In more prosperous families it was called 'the best suit'. 'A lot of kids go stealing cars because there's nothing else to do.'Soon 'sleeping policemen' will sprawl across the roads thanks to a campaign by the Kids Council. Marsden, who is due to return to Leeds Road this week unless Coventry buy him, set up the American's third goal in as many matches, a rising angled drive into the roof of the net Coventry should have had the game won long before then. Germany's balancing act on Bosnia has, however, proved uncomfortable. They attained a certain kind of elitist cred; he became cuddly Dud, the LA clown. The shop was crammed with goods: 60 sorts of tea, 15 varieties of honey, 42 of mustard, including a peanut- flavoured one inspired by President Jimmy Carter.If you called in at the shop, said Patricia Wells in her 1984 Food Lover's Guide to Paris, you were likely to be served by Corcellet himself, 'robust, rotund and indefatigable'. Paul Kohnstamm, a director of the pigment-maker, sold his 2.95 million shares (9.87 per cent), to Ringwood Investments, of which Mr Williams is a beneficiary.

But the High Court turned down a separate legal application that would have required the Investors' Compensation Scheme to make substantially more generous payouts. TWO-THIRDS of bacon and ham consumed in Britain is Danish or Dutch The shame is that the British article is far superior This week we begin our series on cooking with pork Please assume that when we write pork, we mean British pork. The best team, he said, that Portsmouth have faced this season. The chief examiners believe it is partly an unintended result of the national curriculum - if pupils are given no choices until 16, they opt for something new then. Switzerland cut its key rate by half a point yesterday to 6 per cent.If the franc has survived the current turmoil, the French government may decide the opportunity to move closer to the mark should not be missed.Traders in Paris said last night they believed the Banque Central and Bundesbank had succeeded in turning the tide of speculation against the currency.'We're seething with rage against the speculators,' said one official of a French state bank. The movies can't abolish their freedom from unrolling in real time, they can only choose not to exercise it, which is closer to perversity than integrity. Best line, though, came from an Asian newsvendor, a man who speaks almost entirely in home- made aphorisms.

But Hydro-Electric also increased its sales into England and Wales, where it supplies industry and regional electricity companies, by 58 per cent to pounds 116.8m.Group turnover in the year to 31 March increased by 17.3 per cent to pounds 667.4m from pounds 568.9m a year earlier. Most brushed past the proffered leaflets, printed, of course, on recyled paper. 'As long as I am enjoying the job and enjoying working with the team I will stay,' he said.Vogts has warned his team not to be complacent. They now sail regularly at Rickmansworth Yacht Club, also in Hertfordshire, where the Commodore (head of the club) is James Vaughan. A case in point was last Thursday's appearance by a South African close-harmony group called Progress (former cast-members of Ipi Tombi, but they weren't keen to elaborate on that, and who can blame them?): their greeting for the new political dawn began 'Today will be the happiest day, / The happiest day of our lives / It feels so lovely to be free and gay, / Viva viva viva South Africa,' and carried on in this vein. A luscious, melon-bellied Gladiator could be your best seller yet.(Photograph omitted).