Recent films like Diehard and Passenger 57, with their arch-villains played by British actors, have caused a certain amount of speculation. Your writer assumes that the Compton brothers were the most famous 'double performers'. He also queried its timing.According to Ian Sproat, the Under-Secretary of State for National Heritage, the tourist board was told by Unicorn's liquidators as long ago as 12 October 1990 that there was little chance of repayment. BR MARK DORAN of Oxford angrily takes me to task for moaning about British Rail's lack of customer relations skills (Independent Traveller, 15 January) during a journey from Bath to Penzance disrupted by floods. The Prime Minister reiterated his opposition to excessive salary increases, but said it was a matter for companies to decide.Mr Dorrell, the first Tory minister to address a TUC meeting since Margaret Thatcher when she was Secretary of State for Education, told 300 representatives at TUC Congress House: 'Any increase in pay will have to be funded, not by increased resources, but by better efficiency within the organisation.'He said: 'It seems self-evident to me that if the level of a service remains constant there should be no more cash provided to pay for it.' Traditional public sector pay structures had not placed sufficient emphasis on performance. But they have all gone for between pounds 60,000 and pounds 100,000 in the last six months.Myriam Benisty did not have a single British name on her list of buyers for the Marina Puente Romano until a year ago.

'We will continue to have a very open immigration policy that will accept a number of applications from here,' he said AP. Yet, when he was sold, the crowds went down despite better results This is my heritage and I think it's a worthy tradition. But, as in the case the end-changing writer played by Richard E Grant in Robert Altman's The Player, self-preservation carried the day 'When I read Dearden's script I thought, this is wonderful This is black It's Hitchcockian. One way to avoid this would be for the next cabinet to opt for a largely internal role, managing the economy and social issues, leaving diplomacy and defence to the President.If this were the strategy, then it would only be feasible under a prime minister such as Edouard Balladur, the former Gaullist finance minister and the current favourite, whose areas of interest are mainly domestic.

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